Former Numsa president Cedric Gina passes away
Gina died in a Durban hospital on Monday morning.
JOHANNESBURG – Prominent trade unionist and African National Congress (ANC) member Cedric Gina has passed away.
Gina died in a Durban hospital on Monday morning.
He rose through the ranks to become president of metal National Union of Metalworker of South Africa (Numsa).
#CedricGina Prominent trade unionist and ANC member Cedric Gina has passed away. pic.twitter.com/w7gCKC9ZeZ
— EWN Reporter (@ewnreporter) January 28, 2019
In 2013, he resigned from Numsa unhappy about the direction it was taking as the union was involved in a bitter battle with Cosatu and later expelled from the federation.
Gina then formed his own union, the Liberated Metalworkers Union of South Africa (Limusa).
(Edited by Leeto M Khoza)
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