AMCU lashes out at Ramaphosa 'courting' Malema with Marikana widows visit
17 April 2018
The victims of the Marikana massacre should not be used as instruments to mend relations between the ANC and the EFF, Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) president Joseph Mathunjwa said on Monday.
"We were unpleasantly surprised in the recent address at the funeral of our struggle icon and heroine Mama Winnie Madikizela-Mandela that the state president has courted the leadership of the EFF to nicodemusly (secretly) go and apologise to the widows of the Marikana massacre," he said in an open letter.
This was after ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa said at Madikizela-Mandela's funeral at the weekend that he would take EFF leader Julius Malema with him "to heal the wounds of those in Marikana".
Ramaphosa said Madikizela-Mandela had promised that she would take him to Marikana to formally apologise to the widows of the 34 miners who were killed.