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BusinessLive reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) will meet with its members next week to consider whether a shutdown at power utility Eskom will take place during the week of the May general elections.
The union's shutdown threat came after President Cyril Ramaphosa's announcement in February that Eskom would be split into three state-owned entities. NUM met Ramaphosa, public enterprise minister Pravin Gordhan and energy minister Jeff Radebe on Monday. NUM general secretary David Sipunzi said the meeting had had “quality results” that needed to be considered. He indicated that the union would consult its members in the next seven days on the outcome of the meeting and whether the shutdown should go ahead. The NUM said it was relieved after Ramaphosa gave the assurance at the meeting that no jobs would be lost in the process of unbundling Eskom and that it would remain 100% state-owned. Moreover, Gordhan had reassured the union that no instruction had been issued to Eskom to start retrenching workers. The union, however, said that despite the meeting with Ramaphosa it would still go ahead with its march to the ANC’s Luthuli House headquarters in Johannesburg at the end of March.
- Read the full original of the report on the above by Genevieve Quintal and Claudi Mailovich at BusinessLive
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