The board at State-owned power utility Eskom announced on Thursday that Johnny Dladla had been appointed acting group CEO with immediate effect. The position of CEO and acting CEO has been vacant since late May, when a decision was made to rescind the highly controversial reappointment of Brian Molefe, which was ostensibly made in order to avoid a R30-million early-retirement payment – a payment which should not have been approved in terms of Eskom’s own rules governing early retirement.