North West Premier Thandi Modise has welcomed the assurance by Minister of Police, Nathi Mthethwa that police visibility in the platinum belt is to be intensified in anticipation of Lonmin mineworkers returning to work.
Premier Modise said that increasing police patrols along the routes that workers use to get to the mines and escorting of buses carrying workers will discourage acts of intimidation and violence.
Modise reiterated her call to parties involved in the wage dispute to employ extraordinary measures to end the strike that is now in its 16th week.
“Ending the strike will be the first step to avert possible job losses and restoring peace and stability as the protracted strike by AMCU has degenerated into a vicious cycle of violence that has resulted in the brutal killings of non-striking workers, destruction of private and public properties,” Premier Modise said.
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