The union, once the biggest in the mining sector, is riven by infighting, reports NatashaMarrian.
The National Union of Mineworkers has suspended its general secretary, William Mabapa.
Insiders sympathetic to Mabapa say the charges against him are “absurd” and “frivolous”. A document outlining his supposed wrongdoing was presented to and adopted by the NUM national executive committee — the union’s top leadership structure — last Wednesday. NUM president Dan Baipile confirmed Mabapa’s suspension to the FM on August 2, saying the general secretary was suspended with full pay pending the outcome of an investigation. He refused to give details of the allegations against Mabapa or the matter that led to his suspension.
But it suffered a precipitous decline after the Marikana massacre in 2012, losing members to splinter union the Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union, as well as the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, after the latter’s expulsion from Cosatu.
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