Energy department gets new DG

South African Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson

South African Energy Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson

Published Oct 8, 2015

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Cape Town – The South African Minister of Energy has announced the appointment of Thabane Zulu as the new Director General of the Department of Energy.

Minister Tina Joemat-Pettersson welcomed Zulu on Thursday.

According to a statement, Zulu, who started his new appointment on October 1, was welcomed and introduced to the Department’s senior management and to executives of the country’s State Owned entities.

Joemat-Pettersson said that Zulu would bring to his new appointment “immeasurable experience as an astute civil servant”.

She thanked Dr. Wolsey Barnard for “having steered the ship as the acting Director General of the Department”.

On Zulu’s appointment, she said: “I am confident that his appointment will bolster efforts in South Africa’s quest of entrenching an energy mix paradigm for radical economic transformation and harnessing energy access for all.”

ANA

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