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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is looking forward to a maximum participation by delegates at the Congress of South African Trade Union (Cosatu)'s Central Committee  (CC)which is scheduled to starts next week.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has today tabled its wage demands to Kumba Iron Ore for the 2017 wage negotiations. 

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is going to wage negotiations with Kumba Iron Ore after the three-year agreement is coming to an end on the 30th of June 2017. The NUM will table its demands of its members in Kumba Iron Ore operations in the Northern Cape ( Kolomela and Sishen mines) on the 25th of May 2017.

The National Union of Mineworkers Youth Structure (NUM-YS) held its 2nd National Youth Committee this year on the 19th-20th May 2017 at Elijah Barayi Memorial Training Centre (EBMTC) in Midrand.

The  National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) special National Executive  Committee (NEC) met on the 16th of May 2017 at the Elijah Barayi Memorial Training Centre (EBMTC),  in Midrand and among other things deliberated are the following;

The Central Committee (CC) of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the biggest decision-making body of the organisation outside congress will meet on the 8th to 9th  June 2017 at the Saint George Hotel in Pretoria. The CC rally will be held on the 10th of June 2017 in Rustenburg. Over 700 delegates from the branches of the NUM throughout South Africa will attend. 

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) is deeply concerned by the continued deaths of illegal miners in the Free State Province. More than 30 bodies are so far retrieved in Eland Shaft in Welkom, and this is a matter of serious concern.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) congratulates, comrade Benson Ngqentsu for being elected as Provincial Secretary at the 8th SACP Western Cape Provincial congress over the weekend. Comrade Ngqentsu is a union official attached to the NUM Western Cape Region 

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has noted the return of Brian Molefe who resigned from Eskom under a cloud after a number of allegations were leveled personally against him and Eskom as an entity in the State Capture Report by former Public Protector Thuli Madonsela.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) today marks 22 years of one of the most terrible disasters in the mining industry. On 10th of  May 1995, 104 mineworkers were killed as a result of a locomotive falling  at the edge of 56 levels, landing on the cage and causing it to plunge 460 metres to the bottom of the shaft. It was history's worst ever elevator disaster.