An urgent interdict prevented the congress from proceeding, so attendees were left without guidance on what would happen next.
Scores of National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa delegates from across South Africa waited patiently outside the Cape Town International Convention Centre on Monday morning. They were unsure what to do, after their elective national congress, wasby Judge Graham Moshoana in the Johannesburg Labour Court on Saturday. The conference was due to begin on Monday.
“We don’t know what we are going to do here. The national leadership didn’t provide delegates with guidance after the conference had been interdicted,” said one delegate. Many delegates continued to wait outside even while others conferred with the national office bearers inside the conference centre.spoke to some delegates, who did not want to be named, who were concerned about the legitimacy of the conference and the waste of workers’ money.