[miningmx.com] – SOUTH Africa’s platinum producers distanced themselves from comments made by Chamber of Mines’ lead negotiator, Elize Strydom, who at the weekend cast doubts over the competence of the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA), said BDLive.
Lonmin, Impala Platinum and Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) issued letters to the CCMA in which they “expressed gratitude” to it for its work adding that Strydom’s comments did not meet with their own views on the commission.
Strydom said the CCMA officials did not understand economics in the wake of a proposal it made aimed at ending a strike in the platinum sector, now in its eighth week, by the Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU).
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