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 JOHANNESBURG, South Africa (AP) - Tens of thousands of striking South African miners marched Tuesday to draw attention to their safety concerns, adding to pressures on the industry in a country where a miner dies nearly every day.
The world's leading producers of gold and platinum are among mines hit by the one-day strike called by the 270,000-member National Union of Mineworkers.
The union said some 40,000 members, some brought in by bus, marched in Johannesburg on the Chamber of Mines, the industry employer's organization that includes leaders AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields, Harmony Gold, Anglo Platinum, Impala Platinum and Lonmin.
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