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Irvin Jim accuses suspended Numsa leaders of ‘lawfare’

Irvin Jim, the general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa.

Irvin Jim, the general secretary of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), has called a court bid by the suspended members of his union “political lawfare”.

Jim was responding to an affidavit by Numsa’s suspended second deputy president, Ruth Ntlokotse, which is part of a bid at the labour court to declare the suspensions of 30 leaders invalid and allow the members to participate in the union’s congress next week.

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