This week’s  highly contentious elective conference of metalworkers union, NUMSA, ended on Thursday with some union regions rejecting the outcome of the congress, maintaining that it should be declared null and void. This was after the Labour Court in Johannesburg had dismissed the union's application for leave to appeal against the court's decision which interdicted the congress from going ahead.  NUMSA's Regional Secretary in the Western Cape, Vuyo Lufele, was among those saying the congress did not comply with NUMSA's own constitution, because the Mpumalanga region was excluded from attending. He reiterated that the elections which were held for new leadership were also null and void. That statement was a clear sign of future battles for the heart and soul of South Africa's biggest single trade union. We spoke to Labour Analyst, Mamokgethi Molopyane.