Talks aimed at establishing a peace accord at Lonmin’s Marikana mine reached a stalemate late last night and are likely to collapse.
“There was no progress at the meeting. No agreement was reached because workers who were on the hill don’t want a peace accord. Their demand is R12 500 salary, or Lonmin must close otherwise Chinese will takeover,” Lesiba Seshoka, the spokesman for the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said last night.
He said the NUM had to persuade the Department of Labour and the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration against withdrawing from the talks because of lack of progress.
But Labour Department spokesman Page Boikanyo told Bloomberg the talks had been adjourned until tomorrow.