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Amplats hopes strikes will end tomorrow

After a revised pay offer

Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said on Wednesday it believed strike leaders were “happy” with the company’s revised pay offer to end two months of wildcat action in South Africa and expected miners to resume work on Thursday.

“The strike committee members will today present the offer to their members and encourage them to return to work tomorrow,” Amplats spokeswoman Mpumi Sithole told Reuters.

“Yesterday we has a meeting with the management and today we are giving the miners feedback. There is a new offer,” Evans Ramokga, a labour leader at Amplats, said.

He could not disclose the details of the new offer, saying it had to be communicated to the workers first.

The strikers had rejected Amplats’ previous offer that included a 4,500 rand ($510) one-off payment and a pledge to start wage talks ahead of the expiry of current agreements next year.

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