Black and white South African gold miners in solidarity on strike - 08/09/05

By Doug Cunningham

Roughly 80,000 gold miners are on strike in South Africa - the first strike uniting black and white workers as they struggle for higher wages. The mining companies being struck are Harmony, Gold Fields and AngloGold Ashanti. The last gold strike in Sout hAfrica was in 1987. In that strike the whites-only mineworkers union sided with the gold mining management.

Africa | Posted 08/08/2005 - 7:15pm | login or register to post comments | 1019 reads