South Africa Strikes Spread to Gold Mine

Author:
AlJazeera English
Publisher:
AlJazeera English
Publication Date:
3 September 2012
Tags:
South Africa, Labour, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Mining

Workers at the world's fourth largest gold mine have gone on strike in South Africa. Some 12,000 miners in Johannesburg walked out in a dispute about pay and conditions. This comes weeks after 44 people were killed during protests at the Lonmin Platinum mine in the country's northwest.

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