Sacked miners paid off
The world’s second largest platinum miner paid off 20,000 black workers sacked on Tuesday for striking and began sending them out of mine compounds patrolled by armed guards. Production at the Impala ;mines, which provides an estimated one-fourth of the world’s platinum and is in the South African tribal homeland of Bophuthatswana, remained at a standstill again. The strike, over working conditions sent platinum
prices up in London and New York — a $36 jump in London to $712 an ounce. South Africa produces 80 per cent of the non-com-munist world’s output of platinum which is widely used in the motor industry to make catalytic converters which control toxic emissions. The company is seeking replacements for the dismissed employees, twothirds of them from Bophuthatswana where unemployment is high.
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