He was addressing the media, following a meeting with union representatives, after Sibanye-Stillwater employees camped outside the Union Buildings in Pretoria, saying that they will stay there until the President intervenes in their two-month-long wage strike.

Nxesi says they’re concerned.

He says, “Whenever a strike goes extraordinary long, we are concerned about its impact on the economy, its impact on the image of the country. Our fear is that this should be addressed before the situation degenerates further, and we don’t want to see the violence that we saw in Marikana.

But what is very clear, it’s not about money, it’s not about the affordability, it has to do with the attitudes.”

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