Lonmin workers prevented from return

[miningmx.com] – WORKERS seeking to return to work at Lonmin were being prevented from doing so, said Bloomberg News which cited a representative of a union that wasn’t participating in the 16-week strike over pay called by the Association of Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU).

“The police are there, but you can’t move from your house to the place where the buses will pick you up,’ said Sydwell Dokolwana, a regional secretary for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).

“There are people singing and carrying weapons; they are there on every street pulling you off and forcing you to join them,’ he told Bloomberg News.

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