NUM strongly condemns looting in Kwazulu-Natal and Gauteng

Press Statement, 13 July 2021

NUM strongly condemns looting in Kwazulu-Natal and Gauteng

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) strongly condemns the current looting, violence, and lawlessness that is currently unfolding in the country especially in the two volatile provinces of Gauteng and KwaZulu-Natal.

In the aftermath of this situation  many workers will lose their jobs . Many families will be left with no means of earning a living  as many shops and trucks are completely burnt and destroyed. The looting  of these businesses is the destruction of the working class families' source of earning and sustainability .

As the NUM we support the constitution and the rule of law  . We call on the ANC government  to convene an urgent alliance meeting as one of the urgent interventions  to consolidate political efforts to attend to the upheavals . This cannot be left to the government alone without invoking the wisdom of political structures outside government .

We call on other provinces to take serious contingency measures to prevent any potentiality of  the same anarchy . While we support effective law enforcement we should avoid unnecessary deaths resulting due to such interventions . The NUM calls on all South Africans to "SAY NO TO LOOTING".