While some miners have returned to the surface at Impala Platinum’s (Implats) Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine, more than 2,000 employees remain underground as part of an unprotected strike.

The illegal strike began on Monday morning without approval from the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the representative union at the mine...

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