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Slideshow Lonmin deal stirs more South Africa mine strife Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Lonmin deal pressures other South Africa mining firms 4:24am EDT South Africa's Lonmin miners accept pay rise to end strike Tue, Sep 18 2012 UPDATE 2-Lonmin miners cut demands as S.Africa strikes grind on Tue, Sep 18 2012 Striking South Africa miners cut wage demands Tue, Sep 18 2012 South Africa police bar ANC rebel in miner strike crackdown Mon, Sep 17 2012 Analysis & Opinion Witness to the Lonmin shootings Related Topics World » Related Video The real story behind the South African mining “Hill of Horror” - Decoder Fri, Aug 17 2012 South Africa's Lonmin miners return to work By Sherilee Lakmidas MARIKANA, South Africa | Wed Sep 19, 2012 12:22pm EDT MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - South African police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Wednesday to disperse protesters near a mine run by the world's biggest platinum producer Anglo American Platinum, as unrest spread after strikers at rival Lonmin won big pay rises. Within hours of Lonmin agreeing pay rises of up to 22 percent, workers at nearby mines called for similar raises, spelling more trouble after six weeks of industrial action that claimed more than 40 lives and rocked South Africa's economy. The death toll from the unrest rose to 46 when a woman struck by a rubber bullet when police had dispersed mine protesters at the weekend died in hospital on Wednesday, Central Methodist Church Bishop Paul Verryn, who has been counseling striking miners, told Reuters. "We want management to meet us as well now," an organizer for the militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) at Impala Platinum, the second biggest platinum producer, told Reuters. "We want 9,000 rand ($1,100) a month as a basic wage instead of the roughly 5,000 rand we are getting," said the organizer, who declined to be named fearing recriminations from the firm. Jubilant workers at Lonmin's Marikana mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, painted the wage deal as a victory for AMCU over the dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), an ally of the ruling African National Congress. President Jacob Zuma expressed relief at the pay deal after intense criticism from the opposition and media of the government's handling of the crisis - not least in the aftermath of the police killing of 34 Marikana miners on August 16. The shootings, the bloodiest security incident in democratic South Africa's 18-year history, boosted an "Anyone but Zuma" campaign dividing the ANC, although he remains favorite to win an internal leadership election in December. The violence rekindled memories of apartheid-era clashes when police representing white-minority rulers fired on masses of blacks seeking freedom. This time it was the ANC government's police, black and white, who shot the workers, all black. REALITY OF EXTRA COSTS Lonmin shares rose more than 9 percent in early trade on news of the pay deal, but gave up most of those gains as the reality of the extra costs to a company struggling with a shaky balance sheet and unprofitable mine shafts sunk in. The wage deal could add 13 percent to the group's recurrent costs, plus an additional $10 million for a one-off back-to-work bonus, Nomura said in a note. Police clashed with a crowd of men carrying traditional weapons such as spears and machetes in a township at a nearby Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) mine outside the city of Rustenburg. Officers fired tear gas, stun grenades and rubber bullets to disperse an "illegal gathering", police spokesman Dennis Adriao said. He had no information on any injuries. A labor activist said workers who had stayed off the job at Amplats, which accounts for 40 percent of global supplies of the metal used for catalytic converters in cars and jewelry, were inspired by Lonmin and would press on with their demands. "The mood here is upbeat, very celebratory," Mametlwe Sebei, a community representative near Rustenburg, said. "Victory is in sight. The workers are celebrating Lonmin as a victory." Platinum prices rose a little on Wednesday after falling 2.6 percent a day earlier on news of the Lonmin deal. At Marikana, strikers celebrated the deal as a triumph for AMCU, which exploded onto the labor scene in January when its turf war with the NUM led to a six-week closure of the world's largest platinum mine, run by Implats. Thousands of workers and their families gathered at a soccer pitch near the mine to sing victory songs and denounce NUM and its politically aligned leaders. "AMCU is coming. We told them and they are coming," one of the chants ran. One banner read: "Death Certificate; first name: NUM; cause of death: corruption". "I am happy now," 42-year-old rock-driller Simphiwe Booi said. "Now we can eat." MAKING ENDS MEET The 100-year-old ANC was born out of South Africa's fight against apartheid, and rejected the exploitation of poor black miners toiling in the country's fabled gold reefs and other mineral deposits. Nelson Mandela's ANC promised a better life for all when it took power with the end of apartheid in 1994. But despite billions of dollars spent on infrastructure, housing, healthcare and education, income disparity and unemployment have mushroomed while chronic joblessness has helped entrench a massive underclass. While mineworkers have seen their wages steadily increase over the years and mining firms have built schools, hospitals and roads to help communities around shafts, many of the 500,000 people in the sector still have trouble making ends meet. Economists were sanguine at the pay deal, saying Lonmin may have set a precedent for elevated wage settlements that could spread beyond mining and through an economy already saddled with globally uncompetitive labor costs. "The ripple effects will continue to be felt. The outcome of the negotiation at Marikana will likely set a new benchmark for mining more generally and wage costs are set to rise substantially," JP Morgan said in a research note. Should lofty wage hikes take root, they would also be likely to stoke wider inflation and curb the central bank's ability to cut interest rates to boost anemic economic growth. "This can move into the rest of the economy," said Absa Capital strategist Michael Keenan. "It sets a very high precedent for the rest of the market." The gold sector has also not been spared, with 15,000 miners at the KDC West operation of Gold Fields, the world's fourth largest bullion producer, on an illegal strike. Gold Fields' chief executive Nick Holland told Reuters on Tuesday his company could "go on for quite some time" despite the KDC West disruption. Amplats and Implats shares were down 0.8 percent and 1.4 percent respectively at 1301 GMT. ($1 = 8.2390 South African rand) (Additional reporting by Ed Stoddard, Pascal Fletcher, Agnieszka Flak and Tiisetso Motsoeneng in Johannesburg; Writing by Ed Stoddard and Jon Herskovitz; Editing by Ed Cropley, Matthew Tostevin and Pascal Fletcher) World Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. 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