Striking workers have until Thursday to return to work

Andiswa Mkosi
16 October 2012

The Chief Executive of gold producer Gold Fields Nick Holland says the company has giving striking workers until Thursday to return to work or face immediate dismissal.

Holland says 23-thousand-500 miners in South Africa are still on a strike that has cost the company one-point-two billion rands in revenue.

Meanwhile, up to 70 percent of the workforce at Gold Fields' Beatrix one, two and three shafts have started returning to work after a lengthy strike.

Yesterday the Chamber of Mines said that an attempt between gold mining companies, Gold Fields, Anglo Gold Ashanti and Harmony Gold, and unions to address a minimum wage clause in the 2013 wage agreement got a mixed reception from workers.