About 200 employees escaped hostage situation at Gold One mine
For the past three days, over 500 of its employees have been underground as part of a labour dispute between two worker unions, NUM and Amcu.
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For the past three days, over 500 of its employees have been underground as part of a labour dispute between two worker unions, NUM and Amcu.
Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute are leaving a gold mine in South Africa.
Rival unions – National Union of Mineworkers and Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union - are at loggerheads about organising rights at the east of Johannesburg operation.
Production loss at the mine could amount to several million Rand.
It took Gamelihle Jawuza 45 minutes to walk up from underground when he and other miners came to the surface on Wednesday at the Gold One Modder East shaft in Springs.