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SowetanLive reports that the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) has requested assistance from the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) in an attempt to resolve a sit-in by about 300 LanXess chrome miners.
The miners have been staging an underground protest since Wednesday last week over allegations of sexual harassment and sex for jobs. DMR spokesperson Ayanda Shezi said CCMA commissioners had made an offer to mediate. He went on to indicate: "Among the interventions, the department convened the CEO, the National Union of Metalworkers of SA (Numsa) and National Union of Mineworkers to resolve the impasse. Anything that endangers the lives and health of mineworkers is unacceptable to the department. Our immediate focus and priority on this matter is to ensure that all employees come up from underground safely." Numsa spokesperson Phakamile Hlubi-Majola said the union wanted the dispute resolved with speed because the longer the workers remained underground the more dangerous it became for them. Bheki Buthelezi, another Numsa leader, reported that management had agreed for food to be delivered to the striking workers.
- Read the original of Yoliswa Sobuwa’s above report at SowetanLive
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