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Fin24 reports that the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has called on Gwede Mantashe to butt out of the union's internal affairs following public comments made by the minister of mineral resources and energy that the union's suspension of its general secretary (GS) was "madness".
Speaking at a SA Communist Party rally on Sunday, Mantashe – himself a former GS of the NUM – stated that the recent suspension of the union's current GS, William Mabapa, was madness. "You don't suspend a general secretary. It is madness. Anyway, that is not my business," he opined. Mabapa was suspended by the NUM national executive committee (NEC) in late July over "internal matters" and pending an investigation. According to anonymous sources, the suspension came amid a bruising factional battle at NUM, apparently over substantial union funds. This has been denied by the union. In a statement issued on Thursday, the NUM registered its concern over the minister's "public outburst" and said its NEC "takes serious exception to his intrusive political mischief". The union added that to say the decision of the NEC was madness "is a serious assault on the integrity of those who were elected to lead [the] NUM." It followed this up with the following: "He (Mantashe) should stop his freelancing commentary on NUM affairs and channel his negative energies on the mayhem caused by illegal mining and its damage to the economy and working-class communities of our country. He should advance ANC Renewal. Here and now, the rogue must stop."
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Lisa Steyn at Fin24
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