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Suspended members of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) have lodged an application for contempt of court against the union and its general secretary Irvin Jim and chairperson Andrew Chirwa on Monday.
This emanates from Numsa’s defiance of a court order that sought to prohibit the union from proceeding with its 11th national congress last week.
The case will be heard in the Johannesburg Labour Court on Friday.
The suspended members said in a statement:
The 53 members, who included Numsa’s former second deputy president Ruth Ntlokotse, were contending that many provisions in the judgments were not followed to allow the congress to proceed.
“We are therefore asking the court to declare all the proceedings null and void. This would mean that all resolutions and elections would be invalid and of no force or effect.”
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The contempt application also demands that both Chirwa and Jim be imprisoned for 30 days should they be found guilty of contempt of court.
South African Federation of Trade Union’s spokesperson Trevor Shaku confirmed that the suspended members have asked the federation to intervene in their unconstitutional suspensions on July 21.
The suspended members continued:
According to this letter, the 10th congress in 2016 resolved that the NIC should pay back the money and this was not implemented.
The NIC’s life insurance subsidiary, 3Sixty Life, was placed under curatorship late last year after the SA Reserve Bank’s prudential authority found that it was operating from an insolvent position.
