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PART I - ORGANISATIONAL AGENCY IN UNION BUREAUCRACY AND POLITICS

Raphaël Botiveau
Raphaël Botiveau
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Université Paris 1 PanthéonSorbonne (France)
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Comrades,

I have stood on this rostrum as President for every Congress since I was elected 6,353 days ago on 4 December in 1982 – the day the Union was officially inaugurated in the Catholic Church in Jouberton Township near Klerksdorp. In a very strong sense, the Union‘s history and my life have been inextricably intertwined. For the first five years of the Union's life I was a worker president, combining my work as a personnel assistant at Western Deep Levels with the task of building our union organisation in a team led by Comrade Cyril Ramaphosa. After Western Deep Levels dismissed me during the 1987 strike, the union constitution was amended to enable me to continue as President on a full-time basis. That has been my job ever since.

Address by NUM president James Motlatsi at the 10th NUM National Congress, Sinodale Centre, Pretoria, 26 April 2000
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Organise or Die?
Democracy and Leadership in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers
 , pp. 31 - 34
Publisher: Wits University Press
Print publication year: 2017

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