NUM Highveld Region to march to offices of the presidency and the department of public enterprises tomorrow, 09 December 2023

Media Alert 08 December 2023

The NUM Highveld Region has taken a decisive resolution to embark in a march to the office of the Presidency and the Department of Public Enterprises. The march is about calling for the government’s immediate intervention on the Transnet crisis that has resulted in a significant number of retrenchments within the coal mining areas around the country.

The NUM is very disappointed with Transnet’s inability to smoothly transport minerals to the country’s terminal ports. Mining companies are sitting with stock piles of minerals that need to be transported to terminals in Richard’s Bay.

Transnet’s failures to transport the minerals is costing workers their jobs. All these Section 189A that we are seeing are caused by such failures. The NUM cannot sit idling while workers are losing their jobs day-in-day-out. The government must come on board and do the right thing by putting systems in place for the wheels of Transnet to start rolling.

Workers would start assembling from 9am at Pretoria’s Burgers Park before they march to Union Buildings.

For more detailed information, please contact:

Thapelo Malekutu, NUM Highveld Deputy Regional Secretary, 063 601 9005

Livhuwani Mammburu, NUM National Spokesperson, 083 809 3257

Luphert Chilwane, NUM Media Officer, 083 809 3255

The National Union of Mineworkers
7 Rissik Street.
Cnr Frederick Johannesburg
Tel: 011 377 2111 Cell: 083 809 3257
Twitter: @Num_Media