Sikonathi Mantshantsha appointed as Eskom spokesperson
22 January 2020
Eskom has appointed seasoned financial journalist SikonathiMantshantsha to lead its media liaison team as national spokesperson. Mantshantsha will take up the role on 1 February 2020.
André de Ruyter, Eskom Group Chief Executive, announced the appointment to Eskom employees earlier today calling on them to welcome Mantshantsha saying, “I am happy to announce Sikonathi Mantshantsha will be joining the Eskom team, in Corporate Affairs, as our Media Liaison. His appointment is a firm step from our side to strengthen our efforts to improve Eskom’s image, to add another layer of success to our media response strategies in order to be more direct and proactive when engaging with media and other interest groups.”
Sikonathi has extensive media experience and has worked within this industry since 2004. Starting as the Chief Editorial Researcher at Media24, he later joined FinWeek and Fin24.com as a financial journalist for five years. In November 2010, he was presented with an opportunity to join Bloomberg News as the Equities, Industrial and Markets Reporter. Two years later he joined Business Day and Financial Mail as an Investment and Energy Writer, a role that saw him interact extensively with energy issues and with Eskom in particular.
In 2015, Mantshantsha was promoted to Money and Investment Editor and later became the Deputy Editor of the Financial Mail, where he remained until June 2019. In July 2019, he was appointed the Associate Director of the Daily Maverick & Scorpio. Sikonathi is well respected within the media industry and has shown increased growth and authority in each of his roles.