Phakamani Hadebe

Phakamani Hadebe is a South African business executive. He was the Group Chief Executive of Eskom and former CEO of the Land and Agricultural Development Bank of South Africa.

He has a master's in economics from the University of Durban-Westville, an MA in Rural Development from the University of Sussex, is an alumnus of the Wharton Business School and the IMF Institute. From December 2013 until January 2018 Hadebe was head the corporate and investment banking division of Working Limited. He resigned from his position at Eskom a year later on the 26 May 2019 citing poor health and the difficult circumstances of the job as the reason for the resignation. His resignation sparked a debate amongst political parties over the difficult state of managing the financially strained state owned company According to his successor Andre de Ruyter, Hadebe's health issues were significantly exacerbated by his period as CEO and resulted in an on-job collapse.