Fin24 reports that Joseph Mathunjwa was on Friday re-elected to lead the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), thereby extending his time at the helm of the union he founded in 1998.  

Mathunjwa was elected unopposed at a congress held in Boksburg.  In his address to delegates, the firebrand leader said:  “We are more than just a union that conducts wage negotiations and we need to take our children off the streets.  As a re-elected president, I am not going to be apologetic.  We have been given a mandate as Amcu leaders, we have work to do.  Those who have elected us, are expecting a lot from us.  This is not an inheritance.”  Mathunjwa went on to state:  “This government is not for the poor but for those with influence.  Workers are still being killed and there is no accountability for the mining bosses who continue to kill workers.  We, as a country, cannot expect anything better when those implicated in the Marikana Massacre are running the country.”  

• Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Sibongile Khumalo at Fin24
• See too, Joseph Mathunjwa re-elected as Amcu president, at EWN
• And also, Joseph Mathunjwa re-elected Amcu leader, at BusinessLive

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