Frans Baleni, Sdumo Dlamini, Randall Howard, Irvin Jim, Joseph Maqhekeni, Zwelinzima Vavi.

Frans Baleni Tel: (011) 377-2086 Fax: 086-560-0329 Frans Baleni is general secretary of SA's largest trade union, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM). He is also a nonexecutive director of Rand Mutual Assurance which looks after injured mineworkers chairman of the Mine Workers' Investment Trust and executive member of the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions. Between 2003 and 2006 he held several positions at Eskom, including those of nonexecutive director and chair of the tender committee.

Baleni joined NUM in 1982, was elected a shop steward in 1983 and rose through the ranks to become branch chairman at the Western Holdings mine in Welkom in 1988. In the same year, he was dismissed after allegedly …