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Rustenburg - Non-striking Anglo Platinum [JSE:AMS] (Amplats) workers in Rustenburg were afraid of going to work on Friday.
"We cannot go in. We are afraid," said a woman identifying herself as Magda.
She and other women parked their cars at a distance from where members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) were protesting.
A strike by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union began at Amplats mines in Rustenburg on Friday.At Thembelani shaft workers were singing in front of the hostel gate while waiting for workers from different shafts to join them.
"We are all meeting here [at Thembelani]," said miner Tebogo Sikha.
"The mine is retrenching people [and] on the other hand they are employing new people. This means there is money," he said.
Sikha, from Welkom in the Free State, said families of retrenched workers would suffer.
"It will be tough for them, they will suffer because they do not have an income."
Union leaders said a last minute meeting to end the strike was held on Thursday night."We are in Johannesburg - we have been in a meeting over night in a bid to resolve the strike," said Evans Ramokga, one of the local union leaders.
"The strike continues. Workers are meeting at their workplace."
The Amcu members hope to stop Amplats from retrenching 3 300 workers at its Rustenburg operation - a process which the company said would start on September 2.
Police are monitoring the situation.
