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SOUTH AFRICA’S National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) welcomed a report yesterday exposing false membership claims by its split the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu).
The audit by the Chamber of Mines found that Amcu had submitted more than 6,000 false “stop orders” — notifications of a member switching from one union to another — in an attempt to become the majority union in the gold sector.
Last month Amcu claimed that the NUM had conspired to block some 4,000 stop orders ahead of national pay talks.
But the audit found that only 308 of 6,510 new Amcu membership applications were valid.
Amcu was founded in 1998 as a split from the NUM by expelled member Joseph Mathunjwa.
In 2012 it attempted to drive the NUM out of the platinum sector with a campaign of violence, culminating in the police shooting of 34 strikers in the town of Marikana. More NUM members have been murdered since.
