Author: Kgaogelo Magolego

There’s been widespread condemnation of President Cyril Ramaphosa’s latest commitment that South Africa will soon start dismantling its coal mining sector as part of the so-called ‘Just Energy Transition’ to renewable energy sources. The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the EFF swiftly rejected Ramaphosa’s commitment made at the COP27 conference underway in Egypt all expressing concerns of a possible jobs bloodbath. The two unions, influential at Eskom and in the mining sector, accused the government of failing to consult coal mining communities most likely to be affected by the…