A day in the life of... :: Mmegi Online

Stefan Schwarzfischer is a fortnight away from marking his first year as the CEO of the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC). Brought in as the Mr Fix-It of a perennially troubled parastatal, Schwarzfischer opens up to Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI

From the moment he was unveiled as the BPC CEO last November, Schwarzfischer was branded as a professional restructurer and re-engineer of troubled firms who would take the lead in the utility’s ambitious Masa 2020 strategy. For workers and unions however, the terms “restructurer and re-engineer” were seen as business-speak for a corporate panga-man, an consummate professional who would cut jobs with as little emotion as a movie hitman.

That Schwarzfischer is German – a nation not globally renowned for being warm and fuzzy – only lent momentum to the panic that was slowly building among the Corporation’s 2,100-strong workforce.

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A day in the life of...

Stefan Schwarzfischer is a fortnight away from marking his first year as the CEO of the Botswana Power Corporation (BPC). Brought in as the Mr Fix-It of a perennially troubled parastatal, Schwarzfischer opens up to Staff Writer, MBONGENI MGUNI

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