Marikana EFF ward convener Japhta Molusi said miners were determined to see out the strike. They would not settle for anything less than the R12 500. “This three months (of striking) is nothing.
“In Ethiopia people were suffering longer than that but they got what they wanted in the end,” Molusi said.
He rejected rumours that desperate mineworkers had committed suicide or were dying of hunger. But mineworkers said it was tough.
“This thing of suffering… we are used to it. The workers are earning sweets and peanuts. “You earn money one week, but the next week there’s no money,” he said bitterly. “To be honest, we are used to being hungry. “So we’ve decided to be patient…
We’d rather die than not get the R12 500.”
