A sit-in by 240 workers that halted operations at a platinum mine owned by African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) and Impala Platinum came to an end after four sacked workers were rehired.
ARM spokesperson Monique Swartz said the company had not lost any production during the stand-off between workers and management at Two Rivers mine.
”Normal operations have resumed. We have not lost anything as the plant [continued] operating from stockpiles,” Swartz said.
The employees staged the sit-in to demand the sacking of a manager who they say fired the four workers without justification. The protest had halted underground mining operations for the precious metal.
Lesiba Seshoka, spokesperson for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), South Africa’s largest union, said ARM had agreed to reinstate the four workers that had been sacked.
He said the manager had not been sacked. — Reuters