South African gold producers on Friday said they expected most striking workers to head back to the shafts Friday night after making a new wage offer.
"Indications are the majority of mines will be back at work by this evening," the Chamber of Mines, which represents seven gold producers hit by a wage strike, announced.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) earlier said many of its members had accepted the offer and were in the process of ending the strike.
Producers have upped their offer slightly to between 7.5 percent and 8.0 percent in a bid to avoid a protracted industrial action.
The agreement with the unions "has helped us prevent a longer period of damaging industrial action and remains a reasonably balanced outcome in terms of affordability and jobs preservation," said the producers' chief negotiator Elize Strydom in a statement.
Tens of thousands of gold miners downed tools Tuesday night demanding higher wages in the latest in a series of strikes to hit South Africa.
The miners now await the final outcome of talks between the NUM leadership and workers on the new offer "which, it is hoped, will end the current strike."
NUM said workers at "four of the seven companies have accepted" and the rest were being briefed,
"This may possibly mark the end of the strike," said NUM spokesman Lesiba Seshoka.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/african-striking-miners-set-return-165436408.html
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