Busisiwe Mavuso | As a string of leaders quit, is SA's just transition investment plan on track?

The recently announced departure of the head of the president’s climate finance task team, Daniel Mminele, on the expiration of his contract follows those of Eskom CEO André de Ruyter and the GM of the power utility’s Just Energy Transition Office, Mandy Rambharos. Meanwhile, the international partnership group is encouraging SA to speed up the implementation of the just energy transition investment plan. But it deserves full transparency, writes Busisiwe Mavuso.

The recently announced departure of the head of the president’s climate finance task team, Daniel Mminele, on the expiration of his contract follows those of Eskom CEO André de Ruyter and the GM of the power utility’s Just Energy Transition Office, Mandy Rambharos. The Eskom team had been instrumental in drafting the country’s original just energy transition plan while Mminele developed the funding terms for the $8.5 billion secured at COP26 in Glasgow in 2021.