JOHANNESBURG Feb 24 (Reuters) – A contract worker at
Impala Platinum’s troubled Rustenburg operation in
South Africa was beaten to death during an assault on Friday
when he tried to go to work, police said.
The assault, which left two other workers injured,
underscores how far the company is from resolving a violent and
illegal labour dispute that has already seen at least two other
people killed and cost the world’s second largest platinum
producer at least 80,000 ounces in lost output.
(Reporting and writing by Ed Stoddard, editing by Agnieszka
Flak)
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