Hundreds of miners leave South Africa gold mine after being underground for 3 days in union dispute
Associated PressSPRINGS, South Africa — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground because of a union dispute left a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, mine officials and the union at the center of the standoff said. More than 100 miners who police and mine officials said were held against their will by fellow employees of the mine near Johannesburg had escaped earlier, according to a mine official. The AMCU union denied anyone was held against their will despite police and mine officials calling it a “hostage” situation. The rivalry between the AMCU and NUM unions is well known in South African mining circles and was partly behind one of the country’s most horrific mining episodes, when 34 striking miners were shot dead by police at a platinum mine in North West province in 2012.
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