Reports today indicate that the President is still seized with submissions on the Bill and has not yet decided whether he will sign it into law. The DA welcomes the fact that the President is considering our letter pointing out the flaws in the Bill.
The President must not under-estimate the urgency of this matter. The lack of democratic processes in our labour relations framework was a very major cause for the tensions between the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), and the resulting violence which led to the Marikana Massacre.
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