The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday more than 5000 mineworkers have downed tools at the Northam Platinum Mine in Rustenburg to mourn the deaths of the two mineworkers killed there last week.
The union said its members will gather at the mine for a memorial service and then disperse.
The two miners were killed in a ground fall accident last Tuesday.
NUM’s Lesiba Seshoka said by holding a day of mourning it is sending a strong message to mine bosses.
“Now that we have seen that you always put production over the lives of ordinary people [it tells us production is] more important. Therefore if you don’t treat this seriously we will take the day off so that you will also feel the pain in terms of production,” he said.
(Story by Tara Meaney,Edited by Deshnee Subramany appeared on Eyewitness News)
