LETTER: NUM chief’s rant was racist
Joseph Montisetse says white teams were more interested in making money than saving black miners’ lives
11 December 2019 - 14:31
The recent comments by National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) president Joseph Montisetse in the wake of the fatal mining accidents at the Tau Lekoa gold mine in North West were nothing short of racially incendiary.
Montisetse claimed that “lily-white proto teams” ignored black miners because, in essence, they were more interested in making money than saving black miners’ lives. He failed to provide any justification for this outrageous diatribe...
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