Miners Gather Strength as Strikes Across South Africa Continue

“We are sick and tired of the unions; they are liars,” says Adam Thlolwe, a worker at the world’s second-biggest platinum mining complex near Rustenburg, South Africa.

As Thlolwe and more than 40,000 workers defy the main labor unions and cripple the world’s biggest platinum industry, officials at the Congress of South African Trade Unions gather in Johannesburg today, facing accusations that they are too close to the government and companies to represent members’ interests.”

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