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09:22, July 17, 2008 |
Gold production was severely disrupted in parts of South Africa on Wednesday as thousands of mineworkers downed tools to protest rising living costs, their union and management said.
The stayaway in three of the country's nine provinces forms part of a build-up to a national strike organized by the Congress of South African Trade Unions protest against soaring food and electricity bills.
National Union of Mineworkers spokesman Lesiba Seshoka said the strike would affect mines in the Free State -- which produces around 30 percent the country's gold output -- as well as the Northern Cape and Mpumalanga.
"In the Free State there is already a total shutdown," Seshoka told media.
Source:Xinhua
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