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Solidarity on Friday launched a skills bank on its website where engineers and technicians can register so their skills can be re-recruited to help alleviate the crisis at Eskom.
The creation of this knowledge bank by the trade union came in the wake of announcements made by President Cyril Ramaphosa and Public Enterprises Minister Pravin Gordhan that the services of competent former Eskom employees, locally and abroad, should be used to help alleviate Eskom’s skills shortages. Solidarity offered its assistance and called on all South Africans to make Eskom’s rescue a national project. Solidarity plans to publicise the skills bank widely among its members, former members and their networks. “We plan to post it on overseas groups, and we call on South African embassies and missions to help register South African skills so we could have the opportunity to re-recruit them. Many of the experts are abroad for the time being only and would be keen to offer their skills in South Africa instead. Thousands of retired engineers and technicians in South Africa are also ready to offer their help,” Solidarity CE Dr Dirk Hermann said. Solidarity also called on Ramaphosa to appoint a commission of inquiry under the chairmanship of a judge to investigate the crisis, mismanagement and corrupt activities at Eskom.
- Read Solidarity’s press statement in the above regard in full at SA Labour News
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