Miners returning to work received food parcels, health supplements and transport relief, but will have to undergo medicals and retraining.
The trade union says Amcu’s latest counter proposal on behalf of mineworkers borders on negotiating in bad faith and "defeating the ends of justice".
Amcu is considering a government proposal to resolve a five-month platinum strike and will put it to its members this week.
Wage negotiations have reached the point where the mining firms have to report back to their shareholders and Amcu has to speak to its members.
NUM says one of its members has been stabbed to death on his way to work at an Amplats mine, the fifth such killing in the past two weeks.
Miners burnt tyres, barricaded roads and set roadside stalls alight near Lonmin’s platinum mine to stop fellow strikers from returning to work.
Mining firms faced the logistical challenge of contacting 70 000 miners around the country when they decided to sidestep Amcu in wage negotiations.
A fund to help mineworkers will receive a boost as residents and businesses in the North West platinum belt continue to face economic hardships.
Anglo American Platinum and Lonmin have sent force majeure notices to some suppliers of goods and services to its strike-affected operations.
The ongoing mineworkers’ strike in the platinum belt has reached a stage where the financial impact is becoming irreversible, say mining heads.
The ongoing strike in the platinum belt is having a detrimental effect on the pockets of not only miners, but the community at large.
The SABC has reported that police allegedly shot and killed a miner during protests at the Amplats plant near Northam in Limpopo.
The start of talks between representatives of the union, Amplats, Implats and Lonmin and the weaker rand have futher undermined investor confidence.
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union has lowered its demand of R12 500 a month for workers at Impala Platinum, says the union.
The wage strike at Northam Platinum in Limpopo continues after workers rejected a revised offer, says the National Union of Mineworkers.
Mining giant Anglo American Platinum said it was losing an average of 3 100 ounces of production a day since the beginning of a strike.
Union leaders have warned that mine owners’ handling of pay talks could provoke violence in Tuesday’s strikes in the gold sector.
