South Africa: NUM Totally Rejects the Decision Taken By Government to Unbundle Eskom

press release

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) totally rejects the proposed business model announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa during the State of the Nation Address last night to broke up Eskom into three parts, Generation, Transmission, and Distribution. President Cyril Ramaphosa also confirmed that non-core assets of Eskom would be sold. The unbundling of Eskom will result in massive job losses and retrenchments in provinces like Mpumalanga.

The NUM members and other workers at Eskom are totally opposed to the privatisation of the power utility to enrich the few elites.

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