Striking gold miners reject new pay rise offer
Oct 11, 2012 |
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"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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RobinH
Oh well. The ranks of the unemployed leap to uncharted heights.Report Abuse
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.Report Abuse
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 mostReport Abuse
AMO
compromise and take it, no work no pay will destabilize our communitiesReport Abuse
Gusheshe
We are going nowhere as a country> Fire dehele lot and hire people willing to workReport Abuse
Shredder
Agg, close the damn mines where there are strikes. Finish and klaar.Report Abuse
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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!!!Sinudeity!!!
Take it or leave it.Employment, or unemployment. Your choice.
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Sfefenyana
mORENA HLOGONOLODFATSA SECHABA SA AFRICA BORWA,SATAN O TSENE KA GARE GA SECHABAReport Abuse
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