* Amplats threatens to fire illegal strikers
* AngloGold says may have to scale back S.Africa ops
* Another illegal strike hits platinum sector
By Ed Stoddard
JOHANNESBURG, Oct 1 (Reuters) – Top global platinum producer
Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said on Monday it
would fire all strikers who did not attend disciplinary hearings
the following day as an illegal strike continued at 4 of its
South African mines.
With no end in sight to a spate of wildcat strikes in South
Africa, AngloGold Ashanti warned that an illegal
stoppage could lead to cuts in its operations there and said it
might also have to fire workers.
Amid the tough talk from mining bosses, another illegal
strike broke out on Monday at the Bokoni platinum mine run by
Amplats and Canadian-based Atlatsa Resources.
The Bokoni strike is worrying because it is in the far
eastern limb of the platinum belt, hundreds of kilometres from
the wave of labour strife centred around the cities of
Rustenburg and Marikana, where 46 people were killed in a bloody
6-week stoppage at Lonmin.
Police said on Monday another body had been found in the
Rustenburg area near an Amplats property and they believed the
death was related to the mine violence.
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