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Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd
Jurisdiction: South AfricaRegistry ID: —Entity ID: ent_eskom-holdings-soc-ltd_1
status: activeas of 31 Oct 2026reviewed 31 Oct 2026draft
Identity
Trading names: Eskom
Sector: Electricity utility, Power generation, transmission and distribution
ownership: State-owned company; the state is the only shareholder, represented by the Minister of Electricity and Energy B Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd — Annual Financial Statements 2025 (1 Sep 2025) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Operations
Countries: South Africa
Services: Electricity generation, Electricity transmission, Electricity distribution
Public-sector counterparties: National Energy Regulator of South Africa (NERSA), Department of Public Enterprises / Government of South Africa (shareholder)
Attributed claim · as of 31 Mar 2025
Eskom states that it generates, transmits and distributes electricity to industrial, mining, commercial, agricultural, municipal and residential customers, and to some customers in southern Africa. — Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd (annual financial statements)
B Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd — Annual Financial Statements 2025 (1 Sep 2025) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Assessment
What is confirmed, what is attributed, what is disputed and what remains open — kept separate by design.
Confirmed fact · as of 31 Oct 2026
Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd is a state-owned company; the state is the only shareholder, represented by the Minister of Electricity and Energy.
B Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd — Annual Financial Statements 2025 (1 Sep 2025) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Confirmed fact · as of 31 Oct 2026
Eskom generates, transmits and distributes electricity to industrial, mining, commercial, agricultural, municipal and residential customers, and to some customers in southern Africa.
B Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd — Annual Financial Statements 2025 (1 Sep 2025) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Confirmed fact · as of 31 Oct 2026
Eskom reported in its 2025 Annual Financial Statements that it received R64 billion of debt relief support from government during the year.
B Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd — Annual Financial Statements 2025 (1 Sep 2025) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Confirmed fact · as of 31 Oct 2026
Eskom reported that it achieved 310 continuous days without load-shedding from 26 March 2024 to 30 January 2025, with load-shedding required on 13 days in the remainder of the year, compared with 329 days in the prior year.
B Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd — Annual Financial Statements 2025 (1 Sep 2025) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Confirmed fact · as of 31 Oct 2026
The board stated the 2025 financial statements are prepared on a going-concern basis while acknowledging that the underlying conditions inherently include material uncertainties that may cast significant doubt on the going concern of the group and company.
B Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd — Annual Financial Statements 2025 (1 Sep 2025) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Confirmed fact · as of 31 Oct 2026
NERSA granted the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA) — a wholly owned subsidiary of Eskom Holdings — a transmission licence in late July 2023, together with trading and import/export licences, as part of Eskom's restructuring into separate Generation, Transmission and Distribution subsidiaries.
B Department of Public Enterprises, Republic of South Africa (gov.za), Minister Gordhan welcomes approval of remaining licences for the National Transmission Company of SA (NTCSA) by NERSA (18 Sep 2023) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Attributed claim · as of 18 Sep 2023
Under the reported unbundling structure, Eskom is to be split into Generation (Eskom Holdings), Transmission (NTCSA) and Distribution (National Electricity Distribution Company of South Africa, NEDCSA), overseen by a holding company. — BusinessTech
C BusinessTech, Big win for 'New Eskom' (18 Sep 2023) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Unanswered question · as of 31 Oct 2026
The exact company registration number and date of incorporation of Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd were not found in the sources checked for this dossier.
B Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd — Annual Financial Statements 2025 (1 Sep 2025) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Unanswered question · as of 31 Oct 2026
Whether the legal separation of Eskom into three independent operating entities (Generation, Transmission, Distribution) was fully completed as of this review date was not confirmed in the sources checked.
B Department of Public Enterprises, Republic of South Africa (gov.za), Minister Gordhan welcomes approval of remaining licences for the National Transmission Company of SA (NTCSA) by NERSA (18 Sep 2023) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Evidence library
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filing · 1 Sep 2025
Audited Annual Financial Statements 2025; states 'the state is the only shareholder in Eskom' (represented by the Minister of Electricity and Energy), that Eskom generates, transmits and distributes electricity, that it received R64 billion of debt relief support from government during the year, that it achieved 310 continuous days without load-shedding from 26 March 2024 to 30 January 2025, and that the board acknowledged material uncertainties relating to going concern.
B Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd, Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd — Annual Financial Statements 2025 (1 Sep 2025) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Relevance: Primary official financial statement establishing ownership, mandate, state support and operating position.
regulatory notice · 18 Sep 2023
Department of Public Enterprises statement (18 September 2023) recording that NERSA granted the National Transmission Company of South Africa (NTCSA) — a wholly owned subsidiary of Eskom Holdings — a transmission licence (late July 2023) plus trading and import/export licences, as part of Eskom's restructuring into Generation, Transmission and Distribution subsidiaries.
B Department of Public Enterprises, Republic of South Africa (gov.za), Minister Gordhan welcomes approval of remaining licences for the National Transmission Company of SA (NTCSA) by NERSA (18 Sep 2023) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Relevance: Government/regulator record of the unbundling and NERSA licensing.
reporting · 18 Sep 2023
BusinessTech article (18 September 2023) reporting NERSA's grant of trading and import/export licences to NTCSA and describing the planned split of Eskom into Generation (Eskom Holdings), Transmission (NTCSA) and Distribution (NEDCSA) under a holding structure.
C BusinessTech, Big win for 'New Eskom' (18 Sep 2023) · retrieved 31 Oct 2026
Relevance: Independent reporting corroborating the unbundling process.
Claim reviews
Who owns Eskom Holdings SOC Ltd?
Confidence: high
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