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NUM welcomes the sentencing of member killers

SOUTH AFRICA’S National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) has welcomed the sentencing of the murderers of two of its members.

The Oberholzer Regional Court in Carletonville, west of Johannesburg, sentenced five of six defendants on Monday for the murders at the Harmony gold mine in Kusasalethu in November 2012.

Two were found guilty of the murder of two NUM members, identified by NUM Carletonville regional secretary Mbuyiseli Hibana as Mr Tyefini and Mr Madikizala.

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