[miningmx.com] – THE Association of Mineworkers and Construction
Union (Amcu) stormed out of talks to create a centralised bargaining forum in South
Africa’s strike-torn platinum sector, said online publication BDLive.
The union, which is thought to have won thousands of new members disaffected with
the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), demanded NUM publicly retract accusations
that Amcu was behind the assassination of NUM members, BDLive said.
“How can we stabilise the industry when one of the parties at the table goes to the
media and accuses us of being the assassins of their members?’ BDLive quoted Amcu
president Joseph Mathunjwa to have said.
“We have told NUM that if they have any proof, they must take it to the police and get
them to do the job they are supposed to do,’ he added.
Amcu’s protest is in the wake of an article in the newspaper The New Age, which on
October 9 cited NUM president Senzeni Zokwana as having said that Amcu was to
blame for the recent killings of a NUM branch chairman and the relative of a shop
steward.
