Threats of a total shutdown of SA’s mining industry and other sectors could have pushed the labour registrar to ditch his plans to deregister the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), the union’s elective congress heard on Thursday.

However, labour relations registrar Lehlohonolo Molefe has denied ever being threatened by the union, which is the largest in SA’s platinum industry with more than 200,000 members...

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