Renowned unionist Cedric Gina lauded
The former president of the National Union of Metalworkers of SA, who died on Monday, is remembered for his dedication to the working-class struggle
The death of veteran unionist Cedric Gina has sent shock waves throughout the country’s political spectrum. Gina, who was a former president of the continent’s biggest union, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa), and later the founding general secretary of the Liberated Metalworkers Union of SA (Limusa), died on Monday in Durban’s Addington Hospital after a short illness. He was instrumental to Numsa’s growth after he was elected to the helm in 2008. He resigned from the organisation when the showdown with the union’s mother body, Cosatu, got heated in 2013. Numsa was expelled from Cosatu in 2014 for expanding its organisational scope and for choosing not to support the federation’s alliance partner, the ANC, during the national elections. Gina was charged with forming a metalworkers union within Cosatu, though Limusa failed to gain traction and has had fewer than 10,000 members since its inception. On Monday the union federation described Gina as a political activist wh...
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