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National Union of Mineworkers Western Cape, Press Statement, 10 November 2014 Hands off our NUM, Hands off our COSATU The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in the Western Cape is outraged by the continuous reactionary posture of the COSATU leadership clique in trying to isolate the NUM leadership from the collective decisions of the recent COSATU Special Central Committee. Furthermore, Irvin Jim chose to have a hobby of attacking the NUM current and former leadership. These renewed attacks on the leadership of the NUM are directed at the NUM as an organisation and thus we say, an attack on the NUM leadership is an attack on its broader membership and the legacy of Crosby Moni, Elijah Barayi, JB Marks, Kgalema Mothlante, Gwede Mantashe and Cyril Ramaphosa who fearlessly fought for the unity of the workers and that of the federation, COSATU. As the NUM, we have always viewed Irvin Jim as nothing but a reckless loudhailer who seeks headlines from the neo-liberal and anti-majoritarian media. Of course, his co-option by the neo-liberal media has been marked by his hobby to insult the ANC led alliance in particular SACP General Secretary Blade Nzimande and Secretary General of the ANC Gwede Mantashe. As the NUM, we are making no apology in defending COSATU and the alliance now and in the future. No amount of loud sound bites by the workerist populist demagogue trapped in business unionism shall deter our determination to unite COSATU and advance the National Democratic Revolution under the leadership of the ANC. As the NUM in the Western Cape, we call upon all COSATU members to reclaim their COSATU from the current leadership clique of Irvin Jim because the metalworkers belong to the congress alliance. Lastly, as the NUM Western Cape region we respect the collective decision taken at a Special Central Executive Committee meeting because we subscribe to the democratic centralism which has always guided all COSATU democratic processes. For more information, please contact: Happiness Holiday NUM Western Cape Regional Secretary, 082 882 0199 Benson Ngqentsu, NUM Western Cape Regional Organiser, 082 796 6400 -- -- 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.
