{"id":21165,"date":"2025-12-16T12:03:17","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T10:03:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jhb-webdevelopers\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-num-rejects-eskom-unbundling-warns-against-privatisation\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T16:32:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:32:17","slug":"sas-num-rejects-eskom-unbundling-warns-against-privatisation","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/news\/sas-num-rejects-eskom-unbundling-warns-against-privatisation\/","title":{"rendered":"SA\u2019s NUM rejects Eskom unbundling, warns against privatisation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa\u2019s (SA) National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has rejected Eskom\u2019s revised unbundling strategy, cautioning that it could open the door to privatisation of the country\u2019s energy sector.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Last week, SA\u2019s Electricity and Energy Minister, Kgosientsho Ramokgopa, approved Eskom\u2019s board-endorsed plan to restructure the state-owned utility into a holding company and four separate subsidiaries. The government says the move aims to create a more competitive electricity market.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>NUM\u2019s Energy Sector Co-ordinator, Khangela Baloyi, described the strategy as a \u201cneo-liberal project\u201d that dismantles a key state asset. \u201cUnbundling, by definition, involves separating a company into smaller parts in preparation for privatisation,\u201d Baloyi said. \u201cPrivatising Eskom\u2019s market will gradually reduce its revenue and profitability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;ChannelAfrica&#8211;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":21166,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"news-type":[44],"class_list":["post-21165","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","news-type-finance","entry"],"acf":{"short_description":"National Union of Mineworkers has rejected Eskom\u2019s revised unbundling strategy","published_date":"2025-12-16 14:02:09","news_description":"National Union of Mineworkers has rejected Eskom\u2019s revised unbundling strategy","form_embed":"","author":"","image_caption":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21165\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24937,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/21165\/revisions\/24937"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21166"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"news-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.channelafrica.co.za\/channelafrica\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-type?post=21165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}