JOHANNESBURG Oct 2 (Reuters) – Anglo American Platinum
on Tuesday asked workers to stay away from its
Rustenburg mining operations in South Africa after the security
situation in the area had worsened.
Only 20 percent of its Rustenburg employees have been
reporting for work in recent days after thousands joined illegal
wildcat strikes which have held the mining industry at ransom.
Amplats said in a statement it intended to resume operations
in Rustenburg on Wednesday. It also said that workers at its
Union Mine in the northern Limpopo province have refused to go
underground.
(Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; editing by David Dolan)
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