{"id":92682,"date":"2025-11-10T17:44:54","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:44:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/num-and-sacp-urge-halt-to-eskom-unbundling-plans"},"modified":"2025-11-10T17:55:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T17:55:06","slug":"num-and-sacp-urge-halt-to-eskom-unbundling-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/south-africa\/all-news\/num-and-sacp-urge-halt-to-eskom-unbundling-plans","title":{"rendered":"NUM and SACP Urge Halt to Eskom Unbundling Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong>Africa-Press &#8211; South-Africa. <\/strong><\/span>The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the South African Communist Party (SACP) have again called for plans to unbundle Eskom to be halted &#8211; &#8211; claiming this is a backdoor attempt to privatise the power utility.<\/p>\n<p>The NUM and the SACP marched to the offices of Eskom and the Department of Employment and Labour in Bellville in the Western Cape this past weekend.<\/p>\n<p>The union and party believe unbundling the parastatal into separate enterprises for generation, transmission and distribution is bad news.<\/p>\n<p>They also want a reversal of the recent electricity tariff hikes.<\/p>\n<p>NUM president Phillip Vilakazi said Eskom\u2019s restructuring threatens jobs, collective bargaining, and fair working conditions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe cannot handover these democratic rights because we would have sold out all the gains of workers. 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