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FILE: Striking mine workers who support the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) in September 2013. Picture: AFP.

Mining strike

NUM members to strike at Gupta-owned Koornfontein mine

By Koketšo Motau

The union says mine management at Koornfontein promised to pay them on Sunday, but that has not happened.

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