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NUM Press Statement, 19 April 2015 NUM support UJ's firm stand against Xenophobia The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) fully support the University of Johannesburg (UJ) for taking a firm stand against the scourge of xenophobia currently gripping much of our nation The UJ community, students, and employees will tomorrow gather for a UJ Convocation and March Against Xenophobia on Monday, 20 April 2015. The event will start at the Sanlam Auditorium on the APK campus at 12h00. As the NUM, we feel that it is very important that all South Africans must show solidarity with international students and the wider international community in South Africa. The NUM still strongly condemns the anti-working class attacks on innocent immigrants in Durban and throughout the country. Many members of the NUM come from neighbouring countries such as Lesotho, Zimbabwe, Malawi, Zambia, Swaziland, and others. We, therefore, cannot allow the situation to be polarized further. It is totally unacceptable and inexcusable that immigrants could be attacked for being immigrants in a country which purports to support human rights. The working class and the poor should be united against the common enemy i.e oppressive regimes and capitalist exploitation. We cannot wage war against each other. Workers of the world should unite and therefore we must discourage this malady. The NUM calls on the state to urgently intervene in the deteriorating and escalating levels of xenophobic attacks in the country. It is very worrying that these xenophobic attacks are characterized by high levels of criminality and hooliganism and, therefore, calls for the state to take strong action against these criminals and hooligans. For more information please contact: Frans Baleni, NUM General Secretary, 082 375 6443 Livhuwani Mammburu, Acting NUM National Spokesperson, 083 809 3257 Web: www.num.org.za Twitter: @Num Media Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NUM/100860023402167 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
