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South Africa: Communists urge talks on greater state role in mining

SOUTH AFRICAN Communist leader Blade Nzimande called for a national mining indaba (conference) today to tackle the need to transform the industry through state intervention.

The Communist Party accuses the transnational corporations of the country’s three major platinum producers, Lonmin, Implats and Amplats, of avoiding centralised bargaining and competing among themselves on payments to workers.

“All of this has resulted in chronic labour market instability,” he said, after a three-day central committee meeting in Johannesburg.

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