Sowetan reports that Joseph Mathunjwa is set to retain his position as president of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu).  

The union is scheduled to elect its new leadership during a long-awaited conference that got under way in Johannesburg on Wednesday.  The conference will end on Friday with the election of the new leadership.  In March, labour relations registrar Lehlohonolo Molefe issued a notice of his intention to deregister Amcu, saying the union had violated its own constitution.  Molefe noted that Amcu had not held an elective conference for five years and had effectively ceased to function as a “genuine trade union” as envisaged in the Labour Relations Act.  But on 1 September, Molefe ditched plans to deregister the union after a number of written representations from the union’s leadership.  On Wednesday, Amcu’s head of organisational development Krister Janse van Rensburg said the positions of president, deputy president, national chair for health and safety, national treasurer, and national chair for education, were all uncontested.  Labour and employment minister Thulas Nxesi was scheduled to address the conference on Thursday, followed by a keynote address by Mathunjwa.

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Luyolo Mkentane on page 5 of Sowetan of 19 September 2019

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