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JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - About 21,000 Harmony Gold Mining Co. Ltd. mineworkers have gone on strike after mediation efforts with the union over pay and working conditions failed, the company said Thursday.
Strikers walked off the job at two mines in the Free State on Wednesday night. The union is demanding a pay raise, improvements in conditions at mine hostels, larger housing allowances for workers who don't live at mines and guarantees that miners who die of illness or are killed underground will be replaced by relatives.
Negotiations will resume Tuesday after the Easter holiday weekend, said Harmony spokesman Ferdi Dippenaar.
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