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City Press reports that the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) has come out guns blazing, accusing its expelled member, SA Federation of Trade Unions (Saftu) president Ruth Ntlokotse, of misconduct and spreading lies regarding her expulsion.
This comes after Ntlokotse was expelled from the union last Thursday following a disciplinary inquiry last month that Ntlokotse failed to attend. Ntlokotse was charged with misconduct and the hearing recommended expulsion with an option to appeal within seven days of the expulsion. The union’s national executive committee (NEC) endorsed the recommendation and moved to expel her on Thursday. “The Union is dismayed by the pack of lies that she (Ntlokotse) decided to unleash in the media interview about the leadership of Numsa. She has presented it as corrupt, and she has been agitating against the union leadership,” said Numsa in a statement released on Monday. Numsa was alluding to television appearances in which Ntlokotse claimed that her expulsion did not stem from the charges against her, but the union’s animosity against her questioning of its financial mismanagement. “The agenda here is to create the false impression that Numsa NOBs (national office bearers) are a law unto themselves and are squandering workers' money. This is false. We do not have such money in our books, and her goal is to liquidate the union by lying,” Numsa said.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Noxolo Majavu at City Press (subscriber access only)
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