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The mining company clashed with workers last week after announcing it couldn’t pay Christmas bonuses and profit shares. An estimate of about 800 workers downed tools in a bid to strong-arm mine management to conceded to its demand.
Over 800 workers at the mine staged a 36-hour sit-in related to the payment of incentives, while also calling for the closed-shop agreement with its in-house union, Blyvoor Workers Union, to be brought to an end.
Mineworkers at the Blyvoor Gold mine are disgruntled over the non-payment of incentives, including Christmas bonuses and profit sharing.
More than 800 workers are staging a sit-in at the Peter Skeat operation, calling for their demands to be addressed.
Gold mining company Pan African on Wednesday announced that it had entered into a conditional agreement to acquire Blyvoor Gold Operations for R110-million from Peter Skeat's Blyvoor Gold. The transaction takes in six tailings dumps containing more than 1.4-million ounces of gold, the company stated in a media release to Mining Weekly.