South Africa's Zuma says AMCU being irresponsible


  • World
  • Monday, 05 May 2014

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South Africa's President Jacob Zuma said on Monday the Association of Mine and Construction Workers (AMCU) was being irresponsible by dragging a platinum sector wage strike out for nearly four months.

"The very fact that you can introduce a kind of threshold that you are not prepared to move on, it says there's something wrong with AMCU," Zuma, who is vying for a second term in elections later this week, told a news conference.

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