JOHANNESBURG Oct 27 (Reuters) – Anglo American Platinum
(Amplats) will reinstate 12,000 miners it sacked for
taking part in an illegal strike at its South African operations
if they return to their posts next week, a spokesman for the
powerful NUM union said on Saturday.
“They agreed to reinstate all the dismissed workers on the
provision that they return to work by Tuesday,” Lesiba Seshoka,
spokesman for the National Union of Mineworkers, told Reuters.
He added the move would likely end the industrial action
that has paralysed production. Company officials were not
immediately available for comment.
(Reporting by Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Daniel Magnowski)
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