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Talks to avert platinum strike resume
Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) spokesperson Laura Mseme said that the talks had been moved from the CCMA's Johannesburg offices to the Southern Sun Hotel in Arcadia, Pretoria.
On Thursday, members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) downed tools at Lonmin Platinum, Anglo American Platinum and Impala Platinum.
The union demands an entry-level monthly salary of R12 500, but employers have said that this would be unaffordable.
Lonmin CEO Ben Magara told SAFM on Friday that the company had been negotiating with the union since October and had offered between 8% and 8.5%, reports Fin24.
North West police spokesperson Brigadier Thulani Ngubane said that no incidents of strike-related violence were reported over the weekend.
A group of Amcu members, however, lodged a complaint of intimidation at a police station in Rustenburg, claiming that they received threatening text messages urging them to abandon their strike, reports Fin24.
Implats spokesperson Johan Theron said that no serious incidents were reported at the company's mines over the weekend. Most miners left the mines to return home over weekends, he said.
