Economic Freedom Fighters chief Julius Malema has urged celebration members to lead employees and coal mining communities to reject what he believes is the agenda to collapse South Africa’s coal mining sector and authorities’s so-referred to as Just Energy Transition.
Addressing over 5 hundred delegates from throughout the celebration’s nationwide, provincial and regional constructions on Gauteng’s east rand on Friday evening, Malema stated that western international locations have given President Cyril Ramaphosa $8.5 billion {dollars} to abandon coal in favour of renewable vitality whilst international locations similar to Germany and the United States improve their coal use.
He says this week’s go to to the nation by US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen was to entrench the agenda to abandon coal.
“There is no plan to transition to a renewable energy source in a way that will secure jobs and ensure energy security in South Africa and to make matters worse there have been no consultations with South Africans about the planned closing of coal power stations. We must lead the revolt in these communities but more importantly, the EFF must begin to develop a coherent and practical energy policy to protect the environment and jobs while not having the dangerous influence of the USA.”
Julius Malema addresses EFF’s 4th annual plenum:
Malema says there isn’t any verifiable plan to repair the present blackouts.
“Comrades, there is no verifiable plan to fix the current crisis at Eskom, and to make matters worse there is no policy certainty as to what sources of energy ought to be used to ensure stable electricity supply in South Africa,” he claims.
Malema says this week’s go to to the nation by US Secretary of Treasury Janet Yellen was to entrench the agenda to abandon coal.
He provides that the celebration will even focus on the nation’s challenges. “The plenum marks a chance for us as a collective management from everywhere in the nation and inside the legislative sphere to replicate on the challenges confronting us internally and externally whereas setting the agenda for the organisation for the following yr.“
