When a government owns a major asset that is vital to the economy, the governance challenges involved may be quite different from those facing private companies. And when that government is consciously developmental, the dynamic between business, governance, profit and politics is even more intriguing.
Eskom chairman Reuel Khoza has co-authored, with Eskom corporate counsel Mohamed Adam, a book titled The Power of Governance (Pan Macmillan).
The authors start out by describing the complexity of the governance challenge facing a state-owned enterprise on the scale of Eskom.
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