Article by Benson Ngqentsu
Joseph Mathunjwa, the President of AMCU and Chris Griffith CEO of Amplats: Two sides of the same coin Both the print and electronic media carried a story relating to the disgusting statement made by Amplats CEO Chris Griffith saying, "Am I getting paid on a fair basis for what I'm having to deal with in this company? Must I run this company and deal with all this nonsense for nothing? I'm at work. I'm not on strike. I'm not demanding to be paid what I'm not worth." Indeed, such statement are indicative that those who are tasked with the responsibility to manage the capitalist conglomerates doing so by exploiting the workers. Thus the statement uttered by Amplats CEO demonstrates the high levels of greediness and the total disregard of the workers' rights. Hence therefore it might be important to remind the nation and the world that Mr Griffith is not the first person to demonstrate such arrogance in the corridors of the platinum belt. AMCU president Joseph Mathunjwa has been demonstrating such arrogance which was covered on the Financial Mail in February 2014 by Sikonathi Mantshantsha in his weekly column. When Mathunjwa was confronted by a question in relation to the collection of workers monthly subscription whilst they are on strike? Mathunjunwa's reply had this to say "What does my salary have to do with the strike? I am not on strike, why must I not get paid? And I did not tell the people to strike, they themselves voted for the strike." Clearly, Mathunjwa and Griffith are singing from the same hymn book. This is the same Mathunjwa who owns fleet of vehicles and property and has consistently refused to account about how he acquired his wealth. On the contrary he claims to be the champion of workers interest yet he has wealth he can't account for, therefore, Joseph Mathunjwa of AMCU and Chris Griffith of AMPLATS are the two sides of the same coin hence workers must not be blinded by Mathunjwa's left rhetoric; he is a person who speaks left and walks right. Mathunjwa is a dangerous person who behaves like a wolf in the sheepskin, using the genuine grievances of workers for his own selfish ends. He, the self-appointed President of AMCU, has never called an elective congress of his 'union' nor has any intention of doing so. Let's also note Mathunjwa is the only President of a union in the country who is in the pay-roll of the union - contrary to the practise where union Presidents are worker leaders. . Benson Ngqentsu is the SACP's Brian Bunting District Secretary and the NUM Western Cape Regional Organiser-writes on his personal capacity Benson Ngqentsu SACP Brian Bunting District Secretary Mobile: 082 796 6400 Tel: 021948 6363 Fax: 086 660 0992 'He who feeds you controls you' Thomas Sankara Editor's addition: Juju Malema.jpg -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
