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NUM: Statement by National Union of Mineworkers, on NUM, Cosatu and Alliance partners to remember Jeffrey Njuza (17/09/2014)

NUM: Statement by National Union of Mineworkers, on NUM, Cosatu and Alliance partners to remember Jeffrey Njuza (17/09/2014)

17th September 2014

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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Cosatu  and its alliance partners in the North West Province, will be celebrating the life of Jeffrey Njuza, who was brutally killed by a racist white man at Anglo Platinum mine on 2nd September 1989 for using the tea mug that was reserved for whites.

The celebration will start with the unveiling of a tombstone on Saturday 20th September 2014 at Tlhabane, where he was born, from 07h00 until 10h00.

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On Sunday at 08h00, the 21st September 2014 the new regional house that has recently been completed will be renamed the Jeffrey Njuza Memorial House.

It will later be followed by a memorial lecture led by the NUM General Secretary Frans Baleni and the first founding NUM president James Motlatsi at Ben Marais Hall. The memorial lecture will start at 10h00.

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Njuza was a gallant fighter. He was militant and defiant to the end until he was tragically killed for using a tea mug that was reserved for whites. As Solomon Mahlangu declared in the face of the apartheid gallows, indeed Comrade Njuza’s blood too, has nourished the tree that has given birth to the fruits of our freedom.

Njuza's  fighting and fearless spirit shall continue to propel us to greater heights as we seek solutions to the challenges that we still face in the mining industry in South Africa.

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