Share Comment on this story Comment Add to your saved stories SaveCAPE TOWN, South Africa — More than 2,000 workers remained underground for a second day Tuesday in a protest over pay and benefits at a platinum mine in South Africa. The firm has suspended work at the Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine near the city of Rustenburg, and it calls the protest illegal. Representatives from the National Union of Mineworkers went underground to meet with the workers but the protest “remains unresolved,” Implats said. More than 2,200 workers began the protest, but 167 had returned to the surface by Tuesday night, Implats said. On both occasions, hundreds of workers remained underground for days amid allegations some were holding others hostage in a dispute over which union should represent them.

Source: The North Africa Journal December 19, 2023 20:24 UTC