South African Mine Workers Accept 22% Pay Increase

Marikana Miners Set to Return to Work on Thursday

Aljazeera reports the following: 

"Striking workers at South Africa's Lonmin platinum mine say they will return to work on Thursday after accepting a pay rise of 22 per cent.

"The planned return to work, announced on Tuesday, will end more than five weeks of crippling and bloody industrial action that left at least 34 miners dead in a police crackdown last month."

The full report can be read here.