Amcu to discuss asset sale with Amplats CEO

Johannesburg - Mining union Amcu said it would meet Anglo American Platinum's CEO on Thursday to discuss the sale of the firm's Rustenburg assets where the union led a record five-month wage strike last year.

Amplats [JSE:AMS], the world's top producer of the white metal, has said it plans to focus on its more mechanised mines and sell its labour-intensive mines, including the Rustenburg and Union mines after the strike further damaged their viability.

"I will be meeting with the CEO this afternoon because we are worried," Joseph Mathunjwa, president of the hardline Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) told reporters at a briefing.