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ANA reports that an irate Amcu leader Joseph Mathunjwa refused to hand over a memorandum to Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) officials during a protest in Pretoria on Thursday.
After spending hours protesting outside locked DMR offices, a visibly infuriated Mathunjwa said the families of the three missing Lily Mine workers and their colleagues were returning to Mpumalanga with their document, which they had intended to hand over to Mineral Resources Minister Mosebenzi Joseph Zwane. Addressing two DMR representatives who sought to receive the memorandum on behalf of Zwane, Mathunjwa stated: “This is stupidity gentlemen. We have asked you to bring us even any deputy minister available in Pretoria, and you have failed. This is simply politics at play. If it were the National Union of Mineworkers, Zwane would have rushed to receive their grievances. Workers have now seen the kind of stupid people leading us. Whatever the minister and his deputy are doing, one of them should be on duty, to address matters which arise at the office. What they are doing here is stupid. That happens when you’re led by Mosebenzi who doesn’t understand anything about mining.”
- Read this report in full at eNCA
- Read too, Bid to have Lily Mine tragedy declared a disaster, at Business Report
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