{"id":234500,"date":"2022-08-18T15:46:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:46:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.groundup.org.za\/article\/numsa-spokesperson-in-defamation-row\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T15:46:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:46:43","slug":"numsa-spokesperson-in-defamation-row","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/numsa-spokesperson-in-defamation-row\/","title":{"rendered":"NUMSA spokesperson in defamation row"},"content":{"rendered":"
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NUMSA spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola has been sent a lawyer\u2019s letter asking her to remove recent twitter posts about SAFTU president Ruth Ntlokotse. NUMSA logo from the website copied for fair use.<\/p>\n

The spokesperson for the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) Phakamile Hlubi-Majola has been sent a letter from the lawyers of the president of the SA Federation of Trade Unions.<\/p>\n

The letter, from lawyers acting for SAFTU president Ruth Ntlokotse, follows WhatsApp, Twitter and Facebook posts made by Hlubi-Majola, entitled \u201cRuth\u2019s Lies\u201d.<\/p>\n

The letter<\/a> states that on 17 August 2022, Hlubi-Majola embarked on a campaign using \u201cunlawful, wrongful and defamatory material\u201d.<\/p>\n

A Twitter post by Hlubli-Majola<\/a> claimed that Ntlokotse \u201cwants to destroy NUMSA\u201d. Hlubi-Majola has 26,000 Twitter followers. The post had received 12 \u201clikes\u201d by time of publication.<\/p>\n

In this post, Hlubli-Majola suggests that Ntlokotse had told \u201clies\u201d in the run-up to the union\u2019s elective conference in July and that she was seeking to collapse the union by trying to nullify the conference.<\/p>\n

The Johannesburg Labour Court\u2019s Judge Graham Moshoana granted an interdict<\/a> against the congress going ahead. Judge Moshoana identified a number of constitutional defects, including unlawful suspensions of union leaders, the placing of the Mpumalanga region under \u201cadministration\u201d, and a failure to appoint a credentials committee in the run-up to the congress.<\/p>\n

He ruled that NUMSA\u2019s congress should not proceed until these defects were remedied. But the congress went ahead, and a slate of national office bearers were elected unopposed. Mpumalanga region was not permitted any delegates.<\/p>\n

Ntlokotse is challenging<\/a> the validity of the national congress and its elections in the Johannesburg Labour Court.<\/p>\n

In the letter Ntlokotse\u2019s lawyers say that Mlubi-Majola\u2019s posts are an effort to \u201cdisparage\u201d her, and to \u201csully\u201d her reputation within NUMSA, SAFTU, South Africa and internationally.<\/p>\n

The letter demands that Hlubi-Majola remove all the posts related to Nltokotse, promise not to make any further posts, and make a public apology to Ntlokotse.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow<\/a>, the Johannesburg Labour Court will hear Ntlokotse\u2019s application to nullify the national congress and to find the union, and its leaders Jim and Chirwa in contempt of court.<\/p>\n

GroundUp sought comment from Hlubi-Majola, but no response was received by our deadline.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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