South Africa: Cosatu and the Num Fight Back. Sort Of.

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Johannesburg — Cosatu and its embattled affiliate, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), launched plans to fight back on Wednesday. But even as battle plans were revealed, in the guise of demands for revision to a two-year deal for coal and gold miners that was inked last year, it's clear NUM must begin a process of negotiation with its own members first - and that it must reconcile itself with its intended purpose.

The last time the National Union of Mineworkers hosted a press briefing at their headquarters in Johannesburg, General Secretary Frans Baleni and president S'dumo Dlamini both accused Julius Malema of attempting to manipulate the crisis in the mining industry for his own nefarious ends.

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