Cosatu to hold rally in Marikana, wants Ramaphosa to attend
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) has lashed out at mineworkers union Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), accusing it of perpetuating lawlessness in Marikana.
Cosatu President Zingiswa Losi has laid the blame of the killings and unrest in the small community in Rustenburg at the door of the rival union.
She told the media in Braamfontein on Thursday that the federation will be returning to Marikana with President Cyril Ramaphosa for a workers rally in October.
Should he attend, it will be the first time Ramaphosa will be returning to the area since the Marikana massacre in 2012.
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Losi says no one is being held accountable for the ongoing killings at the mine.
"We live in a country that others are free to shoot and murder and do whatever - threaten and intimidate - and close our eyes and ears as if nothing has happened.
"Workers in Marikana - of NUM- we are left with little choices it's either we are killed or we kill. But if we take the law into our hands it means we are going to pay the price and go to jail. We've got kids.
"There's lawlessness in Marikana driven by Amcu."
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