South Africa’s President has confirmed plans to establish a fully independent state-owned transmission company as part of the restructuring of Eskom Holdings SOC Limited, the country’s vertically integrated power utility.
The move reverses the December 2025 proposal under which transmission assets were to remain within an Eskom subsidiary structure. A dedicated task team under the National Energy Crisis Committee has been mandated to oversee the restructuring process and submit an implementation roadmap with clear timelines within three months. The broader unbundling of Eskom into separate generation, transmission and distribution entities is aimed at modernising South Africa’s electricity supply industry, attracting private capital and enabling a competitive wholesale electricity market.