Role: Operations Director – Liberty Coal
CEO – Salaria
Experience: Over a decade in mining and surveying leadership.
Education: GDE in Mine Engineering and GCC Mine Survey
Achievements: Led teams in complex projects, specializing in feasibility studies for major mining clients.
Traits: Disciplined, organized, and proactive with a 'can do' attitude.
Passion: Dedicated to achieving excellence under pressure and contributing to organizational success.
Rashveer is currently the Head of Renewable Energy for Absa Relationship Banking. His portfolio includes the financing of renewable energy solutions for SME, Commercial and Corporate clients of the bank. Rashveer has more than 16 years of experience across the Financial Services and Telecoms sectors in South Africa. Prior to joining Absa in his capacity as Head of Renewable Energy, Rashveer headed up Strategy and Planning at TransUnion Africa. He is passionate about South Africa’s growth potential and believes that if all South Africans work together, the possibilities for South Africa, are endless.
"Absa’s instrumental involvement in driving growth in the Renewable Energy sector in South Africa"
Andiswa Matikinca is an award-winning journalist with a passion for writing, storytelling and broadcasting.
She currently works on several of Oxpeckers Investigative Environmental Journalism’s projects, where she tracks, monitors and investigates wildlife and other environmental crimes, as well as the status of renewable energy projects and the Just Energy Transition in South Africa’s Mpumalanga province with Oxpeckers' #PowerTracker.
She became an Oxpeckers associate in 2018, when she was contracted to work as the project manager for #MineAlert, a geojournalism tool that tracks and maps mining and water licence applications across the country
Moeketsi Mpotu is the technical director of Brimis Engineering. Skilled in deep seated technical quality management proficiency’s around engineering and maintenance work, he is responsible for the technical and project execution teams at Brimis to ensure exceptional project delivery.
Mpotu’s career has seen him consult on energy efficiency; and he was part of locomotive design, maintenance and operations at Transnet. His tenure at Eskom included the technical management of turbines, power generation and executive support for C suite individuals within the organisation. Moeketsi (has served as) a chairperson of the SAAMA technical sub-committee on RBI (Risk-Based Inspection).
He has a BSc (Mech Eng) from the University of the Witwatersrand, various professional certificates in risk-based inspections from Steinbeis Transfer Institute (Germany) and an executive development programme certificate (University of the Witwatersrand).
Moeketsi is a board member of the Mpumalanga Stainless Initiative (MSI) and the president of the Middleburg Chamber of Commerce and Industry (MCCI). He is the technical director of Brimis Engineering and Lismar Industrial Safety, he is also the Managing Partner of Ukhamba Industrial
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Daniel (Dan) Leseja Marokane is currently the Group Chief Executive (GCE) of Eskom Holdings SOC Limited., a 100% state-owned company of over 40 000 employees, generating close to 90% of the energy supplied to a wide range of customers in South Africa and the region, by transforming inputs from the natural environment, such as coal, nuclear fuel, diesel, kerosene, water and wind into energy. Eskom has a total of 30 power stations with a nominal capacity of 46 788MW.
Dan is a seasoned turnaround expert, a charismatic and inspirational leader, with a proven track record of disciplined execution in operational, strategic and change leadership roles in large organisations. He has led operations across the oil, gas, power/energy and manufacturing sectors where he has overseen procurement budgets of over R100 billion and capex budgets of R60 billion annually, achieving cashflow improvements of R3 billion over a two-year period and facilitating asset disposals of R6.5 billion. Prior to taking the helm at Eskom, Dan led staff complements of up to 35 000 people.
His return to Eskom is preceded by a stint between 2010 and 2015. During that tenure, he was tasked with stabilising Eskom’s coal supply function, following the first occurrences of loadshedding in 2008. The remit of his function was the operational execution of the coal procurement strategy, focussed on quality and adherence to the coal supply schedule. He initiated and led the harmonisation of procurement policies and practices to drive cost competitiveness, improve governance, and enable engineering cost efficiencies through the critical review of specifications. His last role was being responsible lead Group Capital, and he led the team that successfully syncronised the first of the Medupi unit after delays of several years before. He joined Tongaat Hulett as an executive in January 2018 and carried out various responsibilities as the organisation embarked on a turnaround journey and was appointed to the Tongaat Hulett Board on 18 November 2019. He took on the responsibility of interim CEO in February 2023, early into the company’s voluntary business rescue process focussing on ensuring that, while a financial plan to solve the company’s debt burden was being considered, the four operating entities across Southern Africa (South Africa, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Botswana) continued to show improvement in their operational excellence glide path, thus demonstrating the value of the business.
After his departure from Eskom in March 2015, and before joining Tongaat Hulett, Dan provided advisory services across the energy value chain. He partnered with clients, capacitating them in driving strategic growth and change projects, at CEO and board level.
Dan holds a BSc in Chemical Engineering (UCT) an MSc Petroleum Eng (London) and an MBA (UCT). He is passionate about people, helping them realise their inherent value and full potential, which is critical to driving performance.
