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Cape Town - The sheriff of the court may be attaching property belonging to President Jacob Zuma’s nephew Khulubuse Zuma, Nelson Mandela’s grandson Zondwa Mandela and other directors of the liquidated and apparently pillaged Aurora mine.
Some R35m is owed to nearly 5 000 former Aurora miners and to other creditors.
The appeal to the sheriff and to the current liquidators to take action came on Thursday from Cosatu.
The union federation claims that those “Aurora directors and some of the liquidators, who committed fraud and stole from the poor workers” are delaying the recovery of the R35m.
Cosatu also wants action to be taken to recover R3m that was paid to former liquidator Enver Motala.
The federation maintains that it was he who “messed up Aurora funds during the time he was appointed to deal with the liquidation of both Pamodzi and Aurora”.
The federation has also called for the state to institute a formal investigation into what transpired at Pamodzi/Aurora.
Union representatives in the North West allege that the initial liquidator facilitated what amounted to the stripping of mine assets, including the sale of gold.
The high court case relating to alleged fraud and theft at Aurora was postponed in August to March 15 next year because the directors, including Zuma and Mandela, were not ready to proceed.
“But there is a court order for the workers to be paid,” a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) official said. Cosatu has now demanded that the wages, outstanding for five years, be paid “before the end of December 15”.
