Now free the workers

NOW go for Khulubuse Zuma and Zondwa Mandela.

Like Enver Motale, the liquidator who has allowed them to breed a thoroughly deprived community, this Mandela and this Zuma must be forced to let go of Pamodzi mines.

Motale and Gavin Gainsford were fired as liquidators by the Department of Justice on Monday, thanks to the determination of pressure group Solidarity.

The group served a R3,1million liquidation order to force the company to pay outstanding wages. Good riddance.

It is Motale and Gainsford who gave fat cats Zuma and Mandela questionable stays, while their workers at Aurora mines went without pay for more than a year.

Zuma and Mandela always gave the same answer: waiting for investors to fund their purchase of the mines.

Their promises have been endless and Motale always accepted them - giving them another chance to starve their workers. The mine is now dilapidated, without water even to wash or a place to sleep.

These men, with families in far-off places like Lesotho and Mozambique, can no longer feed their people back home.

One of them has in fact committed suicide. Another tried to take his own life and that of his 11-year-old son.

Yet Zuma has the gumption to donate R1million to the ANC while continuing to humiliate and spread starvation.

It is not difficult to describe Zuma (President Jacob Zuma's nephew) and Mandela (Nelson Mandela's grandson) as heartless.

The ministry must now free the workers from bondage.

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