User:Sam Sailor/Drafts/Frans Baleni

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Frans Baleni is the former General Secretary of the South African National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). He was elected as General Secretary in 2006 and re-elected in 2009 and 2012.[1] In 2012, Baleni was critized for a R 40,000 raise in his monthly salery taking it to R77,000.[2] In June 2015, he lost the re-election to the leadership position at South Africa's largest union after a decade on the job to Free State Secretary David Sipunzi.[3][4]

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  1. ^ SIBONGAKONKE SHOBA. "Zuma ally Baleni re-elected as head of NUM". Times LIVE.
  2. ^ Matuma Letsoalo. "Uproar over unionist's huge salary hike just 'a campaign'". The M&G Online.
  3. ^ "NUM: The end of The Age of Frans Baleni". dailymaverick.co.za.
  4. ^ "Long-serving GS Baleni defeated at NUM congress". News24.

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