In this second part of the interview Tinyiko Sam Maluleke recently appointed Deputy Vice Chancellor: Internationalisation, Advancement and Student Affairs at the University of Johannesburg talks about problems facing trade unions and how these were exposed at Marikana such as failing to service members, upward mobility, affiliate politics and dynamics of the tripartite Alliance of the African National Congress, Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) and the South African Communist Party (SACP).