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South African miners end strike after signing pay deal
Striking South African mine workers listen to their union representatives.
South African gold miners have ended their strike after signing a pay deal, which has arranged for increase in their salaries.
“Members have accepted a new pay structure,” South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said in a statement on Thursday, AFP reported.
The Chamber of Mines confirmed that the miners...
34 Armed Miners Die in Conflict with South Africa Police, President Orders Probe
South African policemen turn guns on dead bodies of miners.
South African riot police opened fire on striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, killing 34 men in the deadliest episode of a week of union violence.
Heavily armed officers backed by armored vehicles were laying out barbed wire barricades when they were outflanked by some of the estimated...
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