Saftu to join court case against load shedding, tariff increase
Trade union federation Saftu says it's joining a court case against Eskom and government over load shedding.
A group of lawyers and NGOs is taking legal action, and has the support of UDM leader Bantu Holomisa, Mmusi Maimane of Build One South Africa, the IFP, and trade union Numsa.
They also want want the nearly 19% tariff increase granted to the power utility by the energy regulator to be halted.
SAFTU says it believes mismanagement at Eskom is to blame for the electricity crisis.
The trade union federation's Trevor Shaku says they were among those calling for outgoing CEO André de Ruyter's resignation.
“Saftu has always and continues to be an advocate against mismanagement of Eskom which has resulted in load shedding, that has now moved from being intermittent to regular and continuous.
“It is amongst others, a reason we called for the resignation of the outgoing Eskom CEO, Andre de Ruyter, as soon as he began breaking records of load shedding hours in 2021.
“In our call for his resignation, we were not oblivious to the fact that the Eskom crisis was engineered by the policies of the ANC government plus the endemic corruption that continues to plague this government.”
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