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Mining Weekly reports that SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has called for urgent social dialogue on SA’s “inevitable” energy transition from coal to renewable energy.
In his view, SA’s current framework will fail to deliver a just outcome for workers and poor communities. Speaking at a seminar on ‘Unlocking a Just Energy Transition for South Africa’, Vavi said not a single union failed to recognise that there would be a shift away from a carbon-based economy. However, a platform was required to allow workers and society to express their “fears” about the transition, particularly in relation to job losses. Such a platform was also needed to build consensus on how the transformation of the energy sector could be used to benefit workers and communities directly, rather than only private energy investors. Noting that the National Economic Development and Labour Council (Nedlac) remained the only platform for coordinating social dialogue between government, labour, business and communities, Vavi argued that “Nedlac has to be the main platform to ensure that parties do come together to reach a single understanding on the way forward in relation to the movement from carbon to renewables.” But, Nedlac would only be effective in its role if it were to be restructured to be more inclusive, not only of new labour federations, such as Saftu, but also of community groups. Vavi lamented that Nedlac continued to exclude Saftu.
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