"1 700 workers start strike 2.4km below Harmony mine", 12 Jan 2017

About 1 700 miners refused to return to the surface of Harmony Gold’s [JSE:HAR] Kusasalethu mine in the West Rand on Wednesday, with the miner saying they have embarked on an illegal sit-in. “Harmony Gold confirms that around 1 700 employees are participating in an illegal sit-in at the company’s Kusasalethu mine near Carletonville...The sit-in started on Wednesday, January 11 when employees chose not to return to surface at the end of the morning shift...No formal demands have been made by the participating employees," the company said in a statement...The mineworkers gathered at level 73, which is 2.4km below the surface of the mine, a Harmony spokesperson told Fin24...