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Amcu to shut down Rustenburg platinum mines next week

───   07:00 Thu, 17 Jan 2019

Amcu to shut down Rustenburg platinum mines next week | News Article

Mining operations will be shut down at Sibanye Stillwater platinum operations in Rustenburg, North West, next week, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) said on Wednesday.


Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa told mineworkers at a mass meeting in Rustenburg that on January 22 they would not go underground, instead they would be in buses headed to the mineral council in Johannesburg.

Amcu has called a secondary strike in the platinum mines owned by Sibanye in an attempt to push the company to accede to the union's R1000 salary hike demand in the gold sector.

Union members at Sibanye gold operations in Gauteng's West Rand and the Free State downed tool on November 22, 2018.

About 12 500 Amcu members were expected to join the secondary strike at the company's platinum operations in Rustenburg.

Mathunjwa said Sibanye Stillwater CEO, Neal Froneman, "makes the largest sums of money", sometimes amounting to R100 million.

"Froneman wants Lonmin mine, why does he want it? Because he wants to make his money with the processing plant from Lonmin mine. Why do you think he bought all these shafts from Anglo? Because he loves you and wants to save your jobs? [No], he only wanted a way to get close to the platinum and use the biggest processing plant from Lonmin mine," said Mathunjwa. 


African News Agency (ANA)

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