SACP North West Media Statement
17 August 2012
Arrest Mathunjwa and Steve Kholekile as the basis for
stability in the Rustenburg mines and institute Presidential Investigation Task
Team, says SACP North West.
The SACP NW joins all South Africans in mourning and
passing our deep condolences to all Mineworkers killed in the platinum mines in
Rustenburg as the result of anarchic, violent, intimidation, murder of workers
and NUM shopstewards. The chaos has been initiated under the guise of salary
increase demands when in real terms it is the chaos and anarchy we see is being
used as the entry point of recruitment for AMCWU. As the SACP we want to state
categorically that it should have not been allowed until when death rises for
law enforcement agencies and the nation’s leadership to take serious this
barbaric act co-ordinated and deliberately organized by AMCWU leader Mr.
Mathunjwa and Steve Kholekile who both are former NUM members expelled because
of anarchy though at different times.
Before proceeding to get into the detail of this tragedy,
we call on an immediate arrest of both Steve Kholekile and Mr Mathunjwa as
co-ordinators, planners and leaders of this anarchic and worker to worker
violence that has left many lives dead and some injured, and this applies to
where they started and not only the current Lonmin process. Mr Mathunjwa could
present an innocent face and try to smooth talk himself out of the crisis but
we know him for who he is. He should not be allowed to perpetrate violence and
appear as an innocent mediator.
We therefore call for a special Presidential Commission
to investigate but not limited to: violent nature and anarchy associated with
AMCWU wherever it establishes itself (starting with the scars that it has left
around Witbank/Mpumalanga where it started), possible breach of both the Labour
Relations Act and the SA Constitution on the freedom of association and right
to form or join a union of your choice, the role of management of both Impala
and Lonmin in the current problems or as facilitating the breach of both the
Labour Relations Act and the Constitution, the role of the department of Labour
and CCMA, possibilities of amendments to strengthen the LRA on the formation of
unions as opposed to the current situation where individuals are allowed to
form union like opening personal accounts or joining insurance policies as the
current case with AMCWU and Mathunjwa, and the comrades who when they were
supposed to be disciplined by Satawu they then formed their own union.
The SACP NW calls on workers to remain united in their
fight against the exploitation under the capitalist system. Workers must
realize that the class enemy is the system and not a union of NUM’s caliber or
other workers. Workers must desist any temptation to mobilise them against NUM
or to mobilise them to attack each other. Workers must not kill each other on
the basis of demagogy and lies. Employers count loses on production and
mineworkers and the working class count loses on injuries on human lives.
Issued on behalf of the SACP North West.
Madoda Sambatha
SACP NW Provincial Secretary posting.
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