{"id":12101,"date":"2012-07-04T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-07-04T10:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/insight-s-africa-mine-union-revolt-shows-cracks-in-anc-rule\/"},"modified":"2012-07-04T12:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-07-04T10:13:49","slug":"insight-s-africa-mine-union-revolt-shows-cracks-in-anc-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/insight-s-africa-mine-union-revolt-shows-cracks-in-anc-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"INSIGHT-S.Africa mine union revolt shows cracks in ANC rule"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Dominant NUM challenged by aggressive labour upstarts<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Mine union turf wars tap into wider services discontent<\/p>\n

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* African liberation movements have faced union threats<\/p>\n

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By Ed Stoddard and Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n

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MODDER EAST\/JOHANNESBURG July 4 (Reuters) – Shaking his fist
\nand surrounded by angry colleagues, South African gold miner
\nChres Manyaka raged against ‘fat cats’ getting rich from the
\nsweat of the workers.<\/p>\n

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But he was not talking about managers of the Gold One
\n company, which had sacked him and several other fellow
\nworkers for an illegal strike at the mine east of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n

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Manyaka’s tirade was against bosses of the National Union of
\nMineworkers (NUM), a pillar in the trade union alliance that
\nbrought workers to the fight against apartheid and helped carry
\nthe African National Congress (ANC) to power in 1994 in the
\ncontinent’s largest economy and No. 1 platinum producer.<\/p>\n

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“If you go and see the NUM people you can see the big
\nstomachs. NUM now is like management,” 28-year-old Manyaka said
\noutside Gold One’s entrance, fringed by the blue gum trees whose
\ntimber has been used for beams in South African mines.<\/p>\n

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Complaints that the NUM, which remains a buttress of
\npolitical and electoral support for the ruling ANC-led alliance,
\nis not defending the interests of its rank and file have put the
\nlegendary labour grouping under seige.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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