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South Africa\u2019s state utility, Eskom, has made an external executive appointment, poaching Vodacom and Cell C alumnus Junaid Munshi to navigate the country\u2019s increasingly competitive energy sector.<\/p>\n
The utility announced that Munshi has been appointed as the new group executive for its Distribution division, effective 1 June 2026. He steps into a role left vacant by Monde Bala, who was permanently appointed as CEO of the newly formed National Transmission Company South Africa (NTCSA).<\/p>\n
Munshi is a seasoned electronic engineer and commercial executive with more than three decades of leadership experience in the technology and telecommunications sectors across South Africa and multiple African markets.<\/p>\n
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Before his most recent role as chief commercial officer at Cable & Wireless Seychelles, he held senior executive positions within major telecommunications organisations, including Vodacom Group, Cell C, and Maziv Group.<\/p>\n
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The restructuring comes at a critical operational juncture for the power utility. Having recently surpassed a full year without rotational load shedding, Eskom is fast-tracking structural reforms to defend its traditional consumer base against private-sector generation alternatives.<\/p>\n
Eskom Group CEO Dan Marokane emphasised that a stable grid requires a total overhaul of how the utility interacts with the marketplace: \u201cThe decisive turning point of one year without load shedding that we reached earlier this month marks a structural shift from a recovering grid to a stable, high-performing power system that advances the economy, competition and the integration of renewable energy.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cIn the reformed, liberalised marketplace, we recognise we are no longer a monopoly and need to compete to retain and expand our customer base, and we are making the necessary investments to empower our distribution division teams to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n
To accelerate this commercial defence strategy, Eskom is deliberately leaning on cross-industry talent infusion rather than relying solely on internal pipelines. Marokane noted that the utility\u2019s operational stabilisation has radically improved its corporate reputation among highly skilled external professionals.<\/p>\n
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