The head of a gold mine in South Africa says a group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of colleagues underground for the second day over a union dispute. He said on Tuesday that some 15 miners are believed to have been injured in scuffles. Details were sketchy and there were conflicting statements about what happened.
JOHANNESBURG — A group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding around 500 of their colleagues underground for the second day at a gold mine in South Africa over a union dispute. Some 15 miners have been injured in scuffles, the head of the mine said on Tuesday.
Hericourt said there were at least 543 employees underground in various sections of the mine. He added that there was some initial contact early on Monday with the alleged hostage-takers.At least one man had sustained a serious head injury in scuffles, Hericourt said. The mine sent a paramedic and a security officer to bring him out on Monday after an agreement that they could, but the two were also taken hostage, he said.
“They are still preventing them from coming to the surface,” NUM representative Mlulameli Mweli said, adding there were also female mine employees trapped underground. “NUM calls for the law enforcement agencies in South Africa to intervene and go underground and arrest the hooligans who are holding our members against their will.”
Meanwhile, AMCU has disputed Hericourt’s version of events, saying that there was a sit-in protest by miners in support of the union. New Kleynfontein Gold Mine manages Modder East, which is owned by the Gold One Group.
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