As miners are expected to return to work on Wednesday, Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa says an R8 000 minimum basic salary is a breakthrough.
The Amcu leader’s speech to members at the end of the historic strike became an exercise in obfuscation, omission and, at times, pure fabrication.
The union has accepted a wage settlement, which sees the five-month long strike in the platinum sector coming to an end.
No date has been set for miners’ return to work at Lonmin’s platinum mine while workers wait for "unconditional" agreements to be made by the firm.
Amcu members have urged leader Joseph Mathunjwa to sign a wage deal with the platinum firms after they announced reaching "in principle undertakings".
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.
Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union president Joseph Mathunjwa says its members have rejected the mining companies’ recent wage offer.
Meetings have resumed between Amcu and major platinum mines, but analysts are divided about whether an end to the three-month strike is in sight.
The majority union on the platinum belt will meet with mining bosses on Tuesday for the companies to explain their latest offer.
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.
South Africa looks ill-prepared for a time when the ruling party no longer has credibility as a stabilising force, writes Rapule Tabane.
Wage negotiations between major platinum producers and Amcu collapsed last week but are expected to begin again on Tuesday as the strike continues.
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.
The Workers and Socialist Party says Joseph Mathunjwa’s planned protest action will give the ANC exactly what it wants – another violent strike.
Five Amcu shop stewards want to meet with president Joseph Mathunjwa to discuss his allegations of corruption.
The company stands firm that dismissed workers will not be reinstated unless they reapply for their jobs, but Amcu says its members won’t play ball.
If the platinum miner disputes the action, the union may bring an urgent application before the labour court.
A slain Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union leader received death threats before he was killed, the union says.
Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa has come under scrutiny at the Farlam commission over his agenda on the day of the Marikana massacre.
AMCU’s Joseph Mathunjwa was accused of misleading the police into believing that workers would disarm on the morning of August 16.
Amcu’s president Joseph Mathunjwa has made very little, if any, concessions during cross-examination at the Marikana commission.
Amcu’s leader Joseph Mathunjwa has done very little talking at the Marikana commission. Yet when the dust settled, he emerged somewhat vindicated.
Violence has become the modus operandi of such strikes in South Africa and Lonmin is no exception, writes Kwanele Sosibo.