Trade unions have accused the government of being dictated to by Western countries to close coal-fired power stations while many developed countries still rely heavily on South Africa for coal.
“When the West, its baseload to power its economy and consistently deliver reliable electricity supply to its people is on coal, gas and nuclear. The question is who’s fooling who? We must not forget Africa accounts for less than 4% of the CO2 responsible for climate change. The UK, US, and China are primarily responsible, so why should South Africa carry the burden of the sins of the Western world? We still have to drive industrialisation for the sake of our economic growth.
While coal was not a sustainable energy resource for the future, right now it remained the only one, he said. Eskom also needed to provide clarity on grid capacity. Solidarity deputy president Helgard Cronje said there was no quick fix to load-shedding and changes to the policy framework were needed.
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