NEHAWU statement on NECSA Board resignation
16 January 2020
The National Education, Health and Allied Workers’ Union [NEHAWU] welcomes the long overdue decision by the remaining Nuclear Energy Corporation of South Africa [NECSA] Board members to resign yesterday.
It was untenable that three remaining board members stubbornly purport themselves to be a board when the Portfolio Committee on Mineral Resources and Energy pronounced publicly on the 15th October 2019 that there is no board at Necsa and implored on the Minister to urgently deal with governance challenges currently facing Necsa.
As the majority union at Necsa we have long called for the entire board to go essentially because governance and the financial situation in the company has gone from bad to worse under their watch ever since they were appointed in December 2018. They chose to jump to escape responsibility and accountability for pushing the company into the brink of not being able to pay salaries and other financial obligations for the remaining months of this financial year.
As we speak, according to the Bargaining Forum briefing yesterday by the Acting Chief Executive Officer Mr Myoli and Chief Financial Officer, Necsa has a cash shortfall of R27m in order to be able to pay salaries on the 24th January 2020 and this excludes other financial obligations the company must honour.