Tue, 28 Feb 2017 06:08:20 +0000 SA’s union chief is M’membe’s long-time political ally DETAILS have emerged that National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) general secretary Irvin Jim is a long-standing ally of Fred M’membe who contributed immensely to the creation of the Rainbow Party, which was initially supposed to be a communist party. Last week, Jim took the Zambian media by storm when he demanded for an unconditional release of Mutinta Mazoka, wife to Mr. M’membe, who was in detention for tearing a warrant of arrest issued against her husband. But a source has told the Daily Nation that Mr. Jim and Mr. M’membe have been allies for a long time and that the two were at the centre of the formation of the Rainbow Party, an idea born out of the fact that Mr. Jim supported South Africa’s Communist Party (SACP). The source said after failing to find serious […]
