Sibanye-Stillwater has launched a new bid to settle the 45-day-old strike by workers at its South African gold operations, making a “final settlement offer” that will add a further R1.67B to its annual wage bill over the next three years.
The gold major says the increased offer will apply to all employees, including Solidarity and UASA members who accepted its previous offer totalling R2.5B in mid-March.
Richard Cox, Sibanye’s executive VP for SA Gold Operations, says the strikers have lost about R990M under the no work-no pay principle. The strike has also cost the South African government about R113M in income tax and levies, on top of even more lost taxes and mining royalties.