Hundreds of Amplats workers were turned away by police as they attempted to storm the NUM’s Rustenburg regional offices to cancel their membership.
Sacked Amplats mineworkers have marched to the regional office of the National Union of Mineworkers in Rustenburg to cancel their membership.
Sacked Anglo American Platinum miners have refused to accept their dismissals for embarking on a wildcat strike.
Hundreds of the 12 000 miners sacked by Amplats have rejected their dismissal and some say they will use violence to get their jobs back.
Wildcat strikes in the mining sector have set a new trend that could result in the unravelling of the formal system of collective bargaining.
Police have used rubber bullets and teargas to disperse a group of people gathered near Anglo American Platinum in Rustenburg.
Widening talk of the dispute over pay issues escalating into a ‘crisis for capital’ is raising serious questions about who is behind it all.
Julius Malema is being helped to foment his "mining revolution" by ANC backers, according to senior youth league figures who continue to support him.
A leader of a major protest by platinum miners has called for a national strike in the sector "to bring the mining companies to their knees".
It will take an innovative leader to steer the miner through the industry crisis, plummeting profits and labour challenges.