Cosatu rally to remember lives lost before Marikana massacre, rebuild NUM - SABC News - Breaking news, special reports, world, business, sport coverage of all South African current events. Africa's news leader.

Cosatu says since the incidents of 2012, only 34 mineworkers who were killed on the 16 August are being remembered, while a blind eye has been turned on those who died before that.

Cosatu’s North West Provincial Secretary Kopano Konopi says they are also calling on police to intensify security in the platinum belt, as“The focus has been mainly on the activities that took place on the 16 August in 2012, which we do not see anything wrong, but we believe that there have been developments prior to the 16th of August, in that ten people died prior to that and post the 16th of August, people died, including that some people who died while they were presenting evidence in the...

The NUM has battled to regain dominance as the majority union in the platinum sector with a membership of just over 50 000 from the 170 000 it had before 2012.“The main purpose of the rally is to rebuild the National Union of Mineworkers, which is among the biggest affiliates. In actual fact, NUM is the biggest industrial affiliate in Cosatu. So, we want to rebuild NUM in Rustenburg and the platinum region.

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