Mon May 20 14:31:56 SAST 2013
Mon May 20 14:31:56 SAST 2013

Striking gold miners reject new pay rise offer

Oct 11, 2012 | Reuters | 9 comments

"This was a final offer from the companies"

Striking South African gold miners have rejected the industry’s latest wage offer, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday, dimming hopes that wildcat strikes that have paralysed the industry could come to an end.

“This was a final offer from the companies. They said take it or leave it,” NUM spokesman Lesiba Seshoka said.

“Now that it has been rejected our options have been exhausted.”

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Mon May 20 14:31:56 SAST 2013 ::
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Oct 11, 2012

RobinH

Oh well. The ranks of the unemployed leap to uncharted heights.
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Oct 11, 2012

warry

Let those guys go six months without a salary and loan sharks start knocking their knees with knobkerries you will see they will go back to work. The attention you give makes them go mad. Avoid them.
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Oct 11, 2012

Sifebe

So they think its better to have nothing. This Marikana issue inspired all these mine workers. Everything they do they think is right. Lets wait and see who's going to suffer most
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Oct 11, 2012

AMO

compromise and take it, no work no pay will destabilize our communities
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Oct 11, 2012

Gusheshe

We are going nowhere as a country> Fire dehele lot and hire people willing to work
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Oct 11, 2012

Shredder

Agg, close the damn mines where there are strikes. Finish and klaar.
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Oct 11, 2012

mambaaai

with out the gold as an export.... our currency weakens....so in that moment we "import" inflation making all of South Africas problems worse....and even more worse for the poor and unemployed.... we now only have 30 000 farmers as opposed to a 80 000 .... just now we have to import even more food.... bumping inflation even further ....making our problems even more dire.....

shower head.....if you didnt get into a p1ssing contest with jujju this would probably not be this bad....

ANC struggle party..... struggling to govern a country.... struggling with itself.....rather build big homesteads for yourself.... overpriced roads while pigs are standing in the trough.....

rather trump up court cases about its d1ck......
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Oct 11, 2012

!!!Sinudeity!!!

Take it or leave it.

Employment, or unemployment. Your choice.
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Oct 11, 2012

Sfefenyana

mORENA HLOGONOLODFATSA SECHABA SA AFRICA BORWA,SATAN O TSENE KA GARE GA SECHABA
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