South Africa wildcat strikes spread to more mines

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JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A series of wildcat miners' strikes in South Africa spread to a new sector, iron ore, on Wednesday and hit another gold firm in an escalation of the labor unrest that is testing President Jacob Zuma's leadership. The industrial action at Kumba Iron Ore, a unit of global miner Anglo American, further dented investor confidence in the continent's wealthiest economy as it showed the protests had moved beyond platinum and gold mines. Workers at the Kusasalethu mine near Johannesburg, operated by South Africa's No. ...




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