GIWUSA against plans to introduce a competitive wholesale electricity market [SOUND]

# The General Industries Workers Union of South Africa says plans to complete Eskom’s restructuring and introduce a competitive wholesale electricity market will entrench energy apartheid. The government sees the wholesale electricity market as a key evolutionary step in the development of a fully competitive electricity supply industry in the country. GIWUSA president, Mametlwe Sebei, says they have consistently been opposed to the unbundling and privatisation of Eskom: