[miningmx.com] – SOUTH Africa’s police services deployed extra forces across the country’s platinum belt in North West province as some 70,000 workers embarked on a strike from today’s morning shift.
Bloomberg News, quoting South African Polices Services spokesman, Thulani Ngubane, said the aim was to stop intimidation of workers who still preferred to work. Police would be in place “in the streets and public areas, so that we don’t have problems of people intimidating and stopping other going to work,’ Ngubane told Bloomberg.
The strike has been called by the Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union which controls about 60% to 70% of platinum workers. Part of the balance consists of members of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) which has already agreed to a wage increase and is not on strike.
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