Modikwa platinum mine continues to be closed on Sundays due to a strike, according to Business Report.

The mine and the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are in disagreement about Sunday work.

Half of Modikwa mine is owned by Anglo Platinum (Angloplat), while African Rainbow Minerals (ARM) owns 41.5 per cent.

According to Angloplat, no work has taken place at the mine on Sundays since mid-February.

NUM members first started striking on January 26th because of their dissatisfaction with the mine's continuous operations policy - in which the mine operates for 353 days a year.

An ARM spokesperson, Pieter Rorich, said an agreement had been reached on Sunday work but that the issue of pay had yet to be resolved.

However, NUM representative Onis Serothwane said the mine had not been granted permission to seek work from its employees on Sundays.

On average the mine has been losing four days of output a month.

SOURCE:

'Modikwa mine still shut on Sundays as shift dispute lingers '
April 10, 2007
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&fArticleId=3772179

'Strikes are exposing SA's ethnic fault lines'
April 10, 2007
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=553&fArticleId=3772177

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