NUM5.jpg Press Statement, 13 January 2016 NUM to march against De Beers Kimberley Mines The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) Kimberley Mines Branch will embark on a march against De Beers Kimberley Mines tomorrow ( 14th of January 2016) The NUM members at Kimberley mines are extremely concerned that the sale of the Kimberley Mines was announced through the media and the NUM structures were never consulted. On the 16th of September 2014, De Beers Consolidated Mines announced to the media that Kimberley Mines will be looking into the following three options: . Closure of the mine in 2018 . Looking at other mining methods to extend the life beyond 2018 . Selling the mine to a third party which can mine profitably beyond 2018 The NUM members will be voicing their anger, disappointment and sadness by the manner in which De Beers sold Kimberley Mines to Ekapa Mining &Petra Diamonds without consultation a "deal" in question could see about 600 employees' future hanging in the limbo. We believe that De Beers has got a hidden agenda since it is only known for its bad legacy of extracting our country's minerals and exploiting our people to the latter. There is nothing to write home about in terms of De Beers Corporate Social Responsibility, beneficiation, providing and facilitating secondary economy, let alone transforming the industry. The worst and most disdain attitude this company displays is colonisation of our economy by ripping us off our country's wealth that has helped to build the western world leaving us in absolute and grinding poverty. We further vow to fight to the bitter end in pursuit of our right to claim the money in a form of shares that this company is refusing to pay to the employees. These payments have been due since March 2014. We will, therefore, demand that De Beers should stop the sale of this mine and restart the consultation process which entails amongst others, compliance with Section 197 of the Labour Relations Act as a whole, ensuring the sustainable employment and job security of our members, exhausting other options instead of setting employees up for possible downward variation of the conditions of employment. The details of the march are as follows: . Date: 14th January 2016 . Time: 09h00 . Venue: The march to commence at KEMO Hotel Parking and Proceed to Stockdale Street (De Beers Head Quarters) The memorandum will be handed to both De Beers and Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) respectively. The media is welcome to attend and report. For more information, please contact: Cornelius Manhe, NUM Kimberley Regional Secretary, 079 871 5514 Orapeleng Moraladi (Acting NUM Kimberley Regional Co-Ordinator) 078 452 6891 / 082 530 3208 Address: 7 Rissik Street. Cnr Frederick, Johannesburg 2001 Tel: 011 377 2111 Web: <http://www.num.org.za> www.num.org.za Twitter: @Num Media Facebook: <https://www.facebook.com/pages/NUM/100860023402167> 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.
