If all goes according to plan, at 10am on Friday in Rosebank, Johannesburg South Africa’s big three platinum producers — Anglo American Platinum , Impala Platinum and Sibanye-Stillwater — will sign wage agreements with Amcu. Other unions are also on board. That will conclude the 2019 round of wage talks, which were accomplished without a protracted and violent strike, the last thing that South Africa’s ailing economy needs right now.
In short, the heavens were lined up for a strike-free outcome. Expect Amcu’s charismatic leader Joseph Mathunjwa, who is a devout Christian from a Salvation Army background, to make biblical references on Friday — provided he does not evoke the satanic forces of white monopoly capital and pull out at the last minute.
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