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Fin24 reports that according to the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), the "disastrous" Independent Power Producers (IPPs) programme to be implemented by power utility Eskom could cost the country thousands of jobs.
Numsa members and members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) marched on Union Buildings on Saturday to hand over a memorandum protesting the signing of IPP contracts and the possible privatisation of Eskom. Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim said Eskom was "systematically and deliberately" being destroyed. Noting that the Eskom board, senior management and the state have been promoting "the disastrous IPP programme", he commented: "The ANC government has betrayed the working class again by finalising these contracts. The IPP’s will destroy Eskom… it will lead to the destruction of almost 100,000 jobs in the country, the majority of which are in Mpumalanga." Jim also rejected the plan to close power stations that reach the end of their life cycle. Jim said that while Numsa was not against renewable energy there "must be a just transition, that we must have a socially owned renewable sector". He called for a national dialogue on what kind of energy mix SA needed.
- Read the full original report by Kaveel Singh at Fin24
Read too, State ‘wants to collapse and privatise Eskom’, at SowetanLive
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