Dolly Mokgatle

Biography

Dolly Mokgatle is an Executive Director of Peotona Group Holdings. She served as CEO of Spoornet until January 2005. Prior to that she was MD of the Transmission Group in Eskom where she was the first woman, first black person and first non-technical person to be appointed to that position. Dolly is credited with turning the Transmission business around from a loss-making process based business model into a technically successful, financially profitable and transformed technical group. This was achieved within the first year and continued over the period of her tenure in the Group, epitomised by significant achievement of key performance areas and ongoing plans to continue improvements. She pioneered the MD women’s Executive Development programme. Dolly and her team developed an environmental management system audit which let to the Group being the first in Eskom to get the certification under the ISO rules Prior to that, she was Executive Director of Corporate Affairs; Senior General Manager, Growth of Development and Acting Legal Manager at Eskom after her promotion from Corporate Legal Consultant. Before she joined Eskom, she was Litigation Officer of the Black Lawyers Association Legal Education Centre where she focused mainly on political cases, housing, labour and other human rights violation matters. She previously joined the University of the Witwatersrand as Research Officer with the Centre for Applied Legal Studies, as well as being a Professional Assistant at Cheadle, Thompson and Haysom Attorneys. In this capacity she worked in the field of Homeland Removals Pass Laws Rural Communities Rights working closely with Professor John Dugard on the case of the Moutse Community [in Bronkhorstspruit], who took their incorporation into the then Bophuthatswana Homeland territory to Parliament. She was, until November 2008, actively involved in the restructuring of the Electricity Distribution Industry and Chaired the Board of the Holding Company, which is tasked with the oversight, facilitation and monitoring of the establishment of Regional Electricity Distributors throughout the country. She was, until December 2009, involved in energy regulation in SA and was Deputy Chairman of the Board of the National Energy Regulator (NERSA) which regulates Electricity, Piped Gas and Petroleum Pipelines. As such, she has over the years accumulated extensive experience in the Energy Sector, both from a Commercial and Policy point of view. She was a member of the Boards of Sasfin Bank Ltd and Sasfin Holdings Ltd, a member of the Afrika Tikkun Services Board, and the Chairperson of the Woolworths Employee Share Ownership Trust, The State Diamond Trader and Zurich Insurance Company SA Ltd.

Research Interest

Focus on petroleum products