Striking South Africa Miners Set To “Bring The Mining Companies To Their Knees”, Call For National Strike

Thursday, September 13, 2012
By Paul Martin

by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
09/13/2012

As if Bernanke promising to print, print, print until such time as the Fed’s flawed policy brings unemployment lower, which by definition will not happen when the US is now suffering not from a structural unemployment “part-time new normal” problem, was not sufficient to send gold and other hard assets higher, today we get the double whammy announcement that the situation in South Africa, already very bad, is about to get much worse. Earlier today, South Africa’s striking miners, already set on belligerent courtesy with their employers and authorities, prepare to go on general strike on Sunday, in effect shutting down all precious metal production in a world that is about to demand hard asset more than ever. “On Sunday, we are starting with a general strike here in Rustenburg,” demonstration leader Mametlwe Sebei told several thousand workers at a soccer stadium in the heart of the platinum belt near Rustenburg, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg. The action was designed to “bring the mining companies to their knees”, he said, to mild applause from the crowd, which was armed with sticks and machetes.”

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