Wed, 22 Feb 2017 11:46:52 +0000 EMPTY threats by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) to launch a campaign to boycott Zambian goods and to end South African trade with Zambia because of Mutinta M’membe’s arrest on Thursday last week is not only laughable but also extreme propaganda. We think NUMSA’s statement is misplaced and an affront to the democracy and good governance it purports to defend. As a trade union, NUMSA reserves the right to express its concerns on a myriad of governance issues within South Africa, SADC region and the continent at large. However, NUMSA must do so from a well-informed and unbiased point of view. In an event where a foreign trade union, as is the case with NUMSA, seeks to advance and entrench a culture of democracy, it is civil that it engages in wide consultations with trade unions domiciled in that country. Certainly, it does not […]
