City Power CEO resigns, will ‘pursue other interests’

Outgoing City Power CEO Tshifularo Mashava. Picture: X / @CityofJoburgZA City Power CEO Tshifularo Mashava will end her decade-long association with the entity at the end of March. Mashava submitted her resignation letter last week, citing a desire to “pursue personal and other professional interests”.

The outgoing CEO has faced questions around her leadership following a raid on the entity’s headquarters last July. Mashava’s resignation letter, seen byThe Citizen, thanked the board, as well as City Power’s executives and employees for their support during her time in charge. “We achieved a lot with so little, in a relatively short space of time.

I take particular pride and cognisance in that, together, we were able to deliver on the commitments and priorities set out at the beginning of my tenure,” stated Mashava. She is credited with leading a rollout of several storage and generation projects which are set to add 50 megawatts in capacity. Additionally, the entity lists upgrades to billing systems and metering, as well as operational improvements as successes of her reign.

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Mashava was employed at City Power for 10 years, four of which where in the position of CEO. “The CEO led a clean-up campaign, which uncovered cases of collusion between contractors and employees, resulting in contracts being frozen, companies blacklisted and staff dismissed. “During that period, performance improved from around 42% in earlier years to more than 80% in recent reporting periods,” stated City Power spokesperson Issac Mangena. The City Power board in October cleared Mashava of allegations of nepotism, unqualified appointments and weaknesses in internal controls

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