No analysis of the Marikana massacre can be taken seriously if the role of AMCU is not even mentioned, even in passing.  So the NUM leaders "were against the strike" but AMCU for it?  In the interests of the alliance any threat to NUM and therefore Cosatu's domination would invoke the description that AMCU members were “... dastardly criminal[s] and must be characterised as such.”

Later Zuma even supported a boget Union to disrupt AMCU...