NUMSA STATEMENT ON TITO MBOWENI'S APPOINTMENT
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) welcomes the appointment of the former Reserve Bank Governor Tito Mboweni as the new non executive Chairman of Nampak as from the 1st June 2010.
We hope Mboweni's presence will present him an opportunity to see the brutality of his conservative and neo-liberal policies he advanced at Reserve Bank as reflected amongst the workers at Nampak. This appointment should be about cleansing himself by advancing transformation and better conditions of employment for workers at Nampak. The Nampak executive is dominated and reflects the White apartheid executives. Mboweni's fabled intellectual status and ideological orientation which earned him admiration amongst the workers given the progressive labour legislations he introduced as first Minister of Labour. That status and admiration - should guide him by pushing transformation, as opposed to being a political hock for white capital to accumulate and expand their profits interests!
As Numsa, we hope that Mboweni will accord trade union formations, particularly Numsa a comradely opportunity for robust and cordial engagements on the pressing and key demands that should pre-occupy his agenda. That agenda should be in sync with numerous NEDLAC commitments of saving jobs and creation of decent work.
Statement issued by Castro Ngobese, NUMSA national spokesperson, February 4 2010
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