By Johnathan Paoli
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is holding its elective congress at the Birchwood Hotel and Conference Centre in Boksburg, Gauteng.
The congress comes amid increased retrenchments, unsafe working conditions, and corporate restructuring in mining and energy sectors, which have weakened worker security and union influence.
Themed “The Epoch For The Dictatorship of The Proletariat Now or Never,” the three-day congress gathers NUM’s 200,000 members from mining, energy, automotive and metal sectors.
The congress is expected to address challenges such as low wages, geopolitical pressures, retrenchments, and mining fatalities.
Delivering a message of support on behalf of the ANC, the party’s Secretary-General Fikile Mbalula pledged ongoing support for fair wages, improved housing, and industrial transformation to ensure South Africa’s mineral wealth benefits the majority.
He also acknowledged NUM’s historical role in the liberation struggle and post-apartheid transformation.
“The history of NUM and the ANC is an intertwined
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