The strike at Sibanye-Stillwater will continue as workers affirm the mandate to Amcu and NUM leaders
Members of the National Union of Mineworkers and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union hold placards outside Sibanye-Stillwater’s Kloof Mine in the southwest of Johannesburg in this file photograph. Picture: REUTERS/SIPHIWE SIBEKO
Sibanye, the world’s largest producer of platinum group metals, whose CEO Neal Froneman took home a R300m share-based pay packet in 2021, is offering R850, which includes a R50 annual increase in living-out allowance. When the leaders asked the striking employees what the next step should be, they shouted in unison that the industrial action, which has resulted in them forfeiting more than R1bn in wages, should continue.
Speaking in parliament on Thursday, mineral resources & energy minister Gwede Mantashe threatened Sibanye-Stillwater with the removal of its mining right because the company is no longer engaged in gold-mining activities. Zukiswa Momoza said: “We won’t go back to work until our demands are met. Our colleagues are having their cars repossessed and some have missed their monthly instalments on their bonded house, and we can’t pay our children’s school fees because there is no income.”
Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa said Froneman earns R1,500 per minute. “With his R300m salary he could hire 2,315 workers and pay them R10,800 per month. We only want R1,000. He [Froneman] would not have got that R300m if it was not for you going underground,” Mathunjwa said as the crowds cheered him on.He said the industrial action is a make-or-break for trade unionism in SA. “If our strike fails, unionism, as we know it, will come to an end in SA. Our children will be slaves of white people.
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