Transnet has warned its port user customers that this week’s National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) national strike will cause disruptions at SA ports.
This follows September 15, when Numsa served a notice on on behalf of a growing number of unions and the coalition to the National Economic Labour and Development Council (Nedlac) of its plan to proceed with the union’s intention to embark on protest action against corruption on Wednesday (September 30).
At the Port of Durban, port manager Moshe Motlohi said this action will affect “all Transnet operating divisions” around the country, but that Transnet “will strive to put mitigating actions in place to ensure that services continue”.
But the odd thing about the Numsa statement accompanying its notice to Nedlac was that it said – in describing its demands – that it knew “that the system of capitalism is inherently corrupt”. And it stressed that a main aim was for the authorities to “investigate economic crimes committed under ‘late apartheid’ (1980-1994)” – with some considerable focus on the 80s rather dubious acquisition of many millions of rands worth of foreign-sourced weaponry.
It made relatively light work of its attitude to all of the proven and alleged current corruption by members of the ANC and its bureaucratic cohorts.
Sources: Numsa and Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA)
