🔒 Political leaders say the politicisation of Eskom’s workforce will be a key challenge to turnaround plans at the utility, in part because of the decision by Numsa to contest the 2019 election with its newly formed Socialist Revolutionary Workers’ Party.
Power struggle: Eskom’s plans to unbundle and its deals with independent power producers is anathema to at least a contingent of its 47 658-strong workforce. Photo: Wikus De Wet/AFP/Getty Images
But Numsa general secretary Irvin Jim this week in an interview dismissed as “cheap propaganda” suggestions that the union’s stance on the ailing power utility is political, aimed at harming the ANC and bolstering the union’s own political party.
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