LABOUR federation Congress of South African Trade Union (COSATU) says while it has noted interventions announced by President Cyril Ramaphosa on Monday night to resolve the loadshedding crisis, it still needed more details, including figures and timeframes because these need to be expedited.
This follows Ramaphosa’s announcement of government’s ‘big’ plan to save embattled Eskom and improve the country’s electricity crisis.
“COSATU still feels that we could have avoided much of this debilitating loadshedding if government had moved with greater speed to implement the commitments of the Eskom Social Compact,” said COSATU’s spokesperson Sizwe Pamla on Tuesday.
“We remain deeply concerned that two years after the signing of the Eskom Social Compact at Nedlac, government has not finalised the debt relief package for Eskom. This needs to be concluded as a matter of urgency because reducing Eskom’s debt burden to affordable levels is key to freeing liquidity for it to
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