Gold Miners Set to Strike as S. Africa Work Stoppages Spread
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South African gold producers are braced for a strike later today when National Union of Mineworkers members are due to add to 120,000 workers who have downed tools in other parts of the continent’s largest economy.
“Talks have continued with the unions, but we’re still anticipating a strike by the NUM,” Charmane Russell, a Chamber of Mines spokeswoman who works at Russell & Associates, said today by phone from Johannesburg.