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AUGUST 2017
SOCIAL ENGINEERS
POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH
Africa 2017
Speaking at the opening of POWER-GEN
& DistribuTECH Africa 2017 on Tuesday,
18 July, at the Sandton Convention Cen-
tre, Johannesburg, high-level pan-African
power stakeholders acknowledged that
transformation is taking place, but that
the pace of change is much too slow.
They urged closer collaboration and inno-
vation to take power to the 600 million
people in Africa who have no access to
electricity, as well as to support industri-
alisation across the continent.
Nigel Blackaby, Conference Director (POWER-GEN & DistribuTECH Africa), Feraye Gurel (Event Director), Leon
Viljoen (Managing Director, ABB Southern Africa), Lynne Brown (Minister, Ministry of Public Enterprises, South
Africa), Eskom’s new Interim Chairman, Zethembe Khoza, George Njenga, Regional Executive, Steam Power Sys-
tems, Sub-Sahara Africa at GE Power South Africa, Glen Ensore (Managing Director, PennWell Corporation).
G4S Solutions (SA), Clinton Hodgson.
Toshiba Plant Systems & Services Corporation: Kenichi Kabasawa
and Tsukasa Ueda.
Swedish Neutral, Andreas Winter.
UL Southern Africa: Nokwanda Nzimande with
Contractor, Kobus Roos.