On Monday last week, mine workers who are members of the mostly black National Union of Mineworkers (a trade union represent working in the gold, platinum and coal mining — a sector comprising 7 percent of South Africa’s gross domestic product and employing nearly 460,000 people) went on a one-day strike.
The strike, which is probably now old news in some quarters, revolved around safety conditions (at least 200 miners died last year; the highest in the world).
But the strike also exposed again the poor wage conditions of the mainly black miners.
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