THE wildcat strikes that have been devastating South African mines and ended the lives of many were a highly organised affair to promote the cause of nationalisation of the country's mines and overthrow current leadership structures, the general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Frans Baleni, said on Friday.He claimed in an interview that former ANC Youth League (ANCYL) leaders, now parading under the banners of Friends of the Youth League and/or Economic Freedom Fighters, had been mobilising resources, weapons and legal support as early as 2011 in an effort to destabilise the country's mines.Julius Malema, former leader of the ANCYL, had been the leading voice calling for the nationalisation of mines."The plan originally was to get NUM leaders preferred by the ANCYL into power at our 2012 congress earlier this year. However, when that did not happen, ANCYL leaders looked for a different alliance, which I believe they found in Amcu [Association of Mineworkers and...
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