Miners in South Africa have rejected a 9 percent wage increase from the country’s platinum producers. <br /><br />Earlier, thousands of workers near Lonmin’s Marikana mine – the scene of the police killing of 34 strikers in 2012 – jeered when they were told about the tabled offer. <br /><br />The country’s AMCU union is seeking a doubling in miners wages to around 800 euros a month. <br /><br />The move to reject the pay offer prolongs a week of industrial action which is already estimated to have hit around 40 percent of the global supply of platinum. <br /><br />That in turn has helped push South Africa’s rand currency to a five year low.
