By Isobel Frye

With each passing day, the impact of the platinum strike increases its toll on workers and shareholders alike.  The earlier announcement of the involvement of the new Minister of Energy appears to have dissipated to nothing.  At the heart of the apparent failure of constructive social dialogue about the resolution of grievances – beyond the work of the Farlam commission looking in to the deaths at Marikana – appears to be an inability for actors in this tragedy to be able to agree on what constitutes a living level that would enable people to live a life of basic decency.

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