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CONTROVERSY CONTINUES

24th May 2013

By: Darlene Creamer

  

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After agonisingly long consultations with government, troubled platinum giant Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) lowered its job cuts to 6 000, from the controversial 14 000, but failed to stop the controversy. Unrest flared again in the platinum belt as union rivalry resurfaced, over-shadowing the measures taken by Amplats CEO Chris Griffith to save R3.8-billion a year by 2015. On the positive side, Amplats miners were reporting for work in the face of earlier calls by some union leaders for a strike.

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