The winners of the platinum strike in South Africa

From Africa is a Country Thu Jul 31 2014, 07:00:07

On January 23 this year the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu), a firebrand breakaway of the COSATU-affiliated National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), took an estimated 50,000 mineworkers to the plateaus of Rustenburg to demand a R12,500 (about US$1,250) basic salary. For months - without pay, their families going hungry and their spirits waning [...]

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