EWN reports that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Workers (Amcu) says mineworkers staged a sit-in at Harmony Gold’s Kusasalethu mine because management had reneged on a promise to pay workers a bonus this month.  

Around 1,700 workers from the Kusasalethu operation in Carletonville failed to surface after Wednesday's morning shift.  After interventions by unions, they resurfaced on Thursday evening.  Harmony said earlier that they were unaware of the reasons for the sit-in  and that no formal demands had been made by the participating employees.  But Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa said:  “The management of the mine had an undertaking to pay workers a bonus when they return to work in January 2017.  Then as the workers were reporting for duty they were made aware … that there are briefs that have been issued by management that there will be no bonuses that will be paid.”

• This report by Clement Manyathela is at EWN
• Read too, Harmony strike highlights continued unrest in the gold mining sector, at The Citizen

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