Speaking at the seventh anniversary commemoration event of the tragic Marikana massacre at Wonderkop in Marikana on Friday, Mathunjwa said the time was now for the land to be taken.
Delivery a two-hour long speech that mirrored a political manifesto, Mathunjwa went on took a swipe at Sibanye-Stillwater [new owners of Lonmin] calling the company evil, referred to government political leaders as ‘managers of white monopoly wealth’. Rival union National Union of Mineworkers wasn’t sparred and called as ‘’servants of mine owners”.
In pre-empting what could happen in the near future, Mathunjwa warned that if he was arrested on trumped-up charges, he would bring a halt to production on all mines in the country.“I warn you that if I have never broken a law and [arrest me on] by fabricating any charges, there will be no mine that will be working on that day,” he said.
In his typcal evangelizing-style of speech delivery, Mathunjwa went on to threaten Sibanye, Anglo and Impala that the union would not be accepting anything less than R1 000 in the current ongoing wage negotiations in the platinum belt.
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