Some say the decision by a judge to take the labour deadlock back to mediation with her as mediator is "highly unusual".
The cost of Amcu’s 15-week wage strike and the data gathered from the mining companies’ SMS polls will be made public at the Labour Court.
Chris Griffith says the timing of comments he made about being paid fairly while a strike at the mine continues was "seemingly insensitive".
The NUM says its members will not return to work at the platinum mines until "conditions are safe and the intimidation" by Amcu stops.
Joseph Mathunjwa is worried about what is happening in the platinum belt, saying it is reminiscent of the run-up to the Marikana massacre.
As miners prepare in the hope that workers will return to the shafts in defiance of their union, more police have been sent to the platinum belt.
The National Union of Mineworkers says two miners have been killed while on their way to work, while another – and his wife – was killed in his home.
Impala Platinum, Anglo American Platinum and Lonmin are due to meet with Amcu workers over a revised offer submitted last week.
In a letter explaining benefits the company offers miners, Lonmin says striking Amcu members are falling behind on their antiretroviral treatments.
The time has surely come for the intervention of wholly independent private conciliation specialists in SA’s mining industry.
The platinum strike has entered its 11th week and employees want to return to work but are being intimidated, says Lonmin chief executive Ben Magara.
Anglo American Platinum and Lonmin have sent force majeure notices to some suppliers of goods and services to its strike-affected operations.
Talks aimed at ending a six-week platinum miners’ strike has fallen apart after producers rejected a revised wage demand.
Claims by Joseph Mathunjwa that a peace group, formed to abate labour-related violence in the North West, targets Amcu members are false, say police.
In the first sign of compromise by the union during wage strikes this year, Amcu has revised its demand. But firms say it is still too high.
Attitudes of platinum producers and the majority union continue to harden as the strike enters it 6th week.
A new union for platinum miners in Rustenburg, the Workers’ Association Union, plans to meet mining companies to end the strike immediately.
Impala Platinum Holdings and the NUM has acknowledged claims about the formation of a new mining labour union in the platinum belt in Rustenburg.
The second biggest platinum producer is reporting good earnings despite a wage strike entering its sixth week.
A contempt of court application against Amcu has been delayed in the Labour Court, says Anglo American Platinum.
South Africa looks ill-prepared for a time when the ruling party no longer has credibility as a stabilising force, writes Rapule Tabane.
Amcu’s refusal to revise its wage demands reflect little regard for potential job losses, says platinum producers.
Platinum miners would rather endure the "short-term pain" of losing millions each day than give up ground on a wage settlement.
The commodity rallied as an ADP research institute report showed US companies added less jobs than was forecast.
Talks aimed at resolving an Amcu strike on the platinum belt will resume on Monday and contine for three days.
Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa has told about 1 500 workers that the media has been peddling lies about the union’s strike in the platinum sector.
An Amcu strike on the platinum mines has kicked off and is set to disrupt operations accounting for about 70% of global output of the precious metal.
After a court postponed its ruling on an interdict to stop Amcu members from gold-mine strikes, the union says its platinum protests will be peaceful.
A planned Amcu strike in the gold sector could go ahead after an application to prevent it has been postponed by the Labour Court.
The Workers and Socialist Party says Joseph Mathunjwa’s planned protest action will give the ANC exactly what it wants – another violent strike.
While Solidarity says a strike by Amcu members would yield no results, the labour minister says the market is entering a turbulent period.
Five Amcu shop stewards want to meet with president Joseph Mathunjwa to discuss his allegations of corruption.