The World - News from April 28, 1985
About 13,000 South African black miners were fired after a week of work stoppages in a dispute over higher wages at the world’s largest gold mine, a spokesman for the Anglo American Corp. announced. The company’s Vaal Reefs mining complex, 150 miles west of Johannesburg, employs more than 40,000 miners and produces about 82 tons of gold a year. The miners staged slowdowns and stoppages after the company offered black supervisors a 10% pay increase and the union asked to have it extended to all black miners.
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