Eskom has appointed telecommunications govt Junaid Munshi as group govt of its distribution division, efficient 1 June 2026.
Munshi has 30 years of engineering, advertising and marketing and industrial management expertise throughout South Africa and several other different African markets.
He was most lately chief industrial officer at Cable & Wi-fi Seychelles, the place he oversaw industrial technique, income progress, advertising and marketing, gross sales, customer support and area operations.
The transfer returns Munshi to Eskom, the place he began his profession as an engineer. Between 1993 and 2002, he held methods and planning engineering roles at Telkom, MTN and Eskom’s former telecommunications arm, Eskom Telecoms, engaged on mounted information and voice community upgrades, earlier than switching to advertising and marketing and industrial technique.
He joined Cell C as a senior advertising and marketing supervisor in 2002, then spent greater than a decade with Vodacom Group. He ran advertising and marketing for Vodacom’s Tanzania and Mozambique operations from 2004, was industrial managing govt at Vodacom Mozambique till 2013 and regional govt for Limpopo.
Exterior hires
In 2015, he took cost of M-Pesa in South Africa – a job that included winding down the cell cash service after it did not ship returns – after which industrial technique throughout Vodacom’s worldwide markets, together with Tanzania, Mozambique, Lesotho and the DRC. He additionally had a short spell as industrial director at Digicel in Jamaica in 2008.
Munshi returned to Cell C as chief industrial officer from 2018 to 2020, overseeing its client and enterprise segments and fibre-to-the-home progress. In 2020 he turned CEO of SA Digital Villages (SADV), the web service supplier now a part of Maziv, repositioning it as a pay as you go fibre operator.
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He was promoted to Maziv group chief industrial officer in 2023 earlier than relocating to the Seychelles in early 2024 as chief industrial officer of Cable & Wi-fi Seychelles, a job he held till late 2025.
The appointment comes as Eskom repositions its distribution enterprise for a liberalised electrical energy market by which the utility not holds a monopoly.
“Within the reformed, liberalised market, we recognise we’re not a monopoly and have to compete to retain and increase our buyer base and we’re making the mandatory investments to empower our distribution division groups to take action,” stated Eskom group CEO Dan Marokane in an announcement on Friday.
Marokane stated the utility is augmenting its inside capabilities with exterior hires the place wanted to hurry up supply of its technique.
Munshi holds a BSc in digital engineering from the College of Cape City, a graduate diploma in engineering from the College of the Witwatersrand and an MBA from Wits Enterprise College.
The distribution function fell vacant when its earlier group govt, Monde Bala, was seconded to the Nationwide Transmission Firm South Africa (NTCSA) as interim chief govt. He was subsequently appointed NTCSA’s everlasting CEO. Agnes Mlambo has held the distribution put up in an appearing capability throughout the search. – © 2026 NewsCentral Media
