The five-month strike by gold miners at Sibanye-Stillwater has halted with the announcement that Amcu had accepted the same wage offer that its three rival unions accepted in October.
The five-month strike by gold miners at Sibanye-Stillwater has halted with the announcement that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union had accepted the same wage offer that its three rival unions — the National Union of Mineworkers , Solidarity and Uasa — accepted in October.
More than nine people have reportedly died as a result of violence during the strike and there is reason to believe that this number may be higher. “I am not a police officer, I don’t know why my members are being killed,” he said. “But people are planning the killing, killers are being hired.”Montisetse had recently returned from the funeral in Port St Johns of NUM member Mbhekani Jali, who was killed in an ambush on his way home from the Driefontein mine near Carletonville in Gauteng.“It is very difficult, people dying because of our union,” he said, with frustration evident in his voice.
The source said many of these mineworkers are married and live in Blybank with their families, confirming that these houses belong to Sibanye-Stillwater and were built by the company some years ago. In a later incident on February 13, a bakkie is reported to have pulled up at a bus stop, where the occupants opened fire on 40 mineworkers.
In what appears to be a separate incident, a 53-year-old Amcu member was reportedly stabbed multiple times and shot several times in the back after workers clashed with Beatrix security guards at 4am. The police found 12 used 9mm cartridges near the body.
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