Monday, July 8, 2013

South Africa: Industrial action returns to plague industry as mineworkers at Amplats down tools

Some 5,600 mineworkers at the world’s top platinum producer Anglo American Platinum downed tools overnight at the firm’s South African operations, demanding the reinstatement of suspended union leaders, the company said Monday.

Workers at the volatile Rustenburg mining belt in the North West province want the company to reverse the suspension of 19 shop stewards belonging to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), who took part in an illegal sit-in last

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