2012-02-04 22:45
Johannesburg – The National Union of Metals Workers of South Africa (Numsa) said its energy conference, underway on Saturday, was aimed at preventing the renewable energy sector from being dominated by a capitalist system.
Numsa president Cedric Gina said in his opening address: “We are currently facing a situation in which the expansion of the renewable energy sector is rapidly developing along capitalist lines.”
The international conference is centred around talks on building a renewal a renewable energy sector in South Africa.
He said workers and communities were at risk of being left behind and “being forced to pay the costs of the sector’s expansion”.
Gina said the union had a vested interest in the renewable sector as it has “comrades who produce small wind turbines, solar water heaters and solar panels”.
He said the building of the renewable energy sector raised questions about who would benefit from its emergence.
“Do communities
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