JOHANNESBURG: Striking miners briefly blocked Anglo American Platinum’s only working shaft in South Africa yesterday after the firm last week sacked 12,000 workers, a spokesman said. “I’m at the Bathopele shaft. Our shaft is the only one working,” an unnamed female worker told public radio SAfm in a telephone interview.
“There are people outside fighting with the police. I’m shaken, I don’t know how we will get out.”
Around 800 people were trapped underground the shaft, she added. AFP
