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S.Africa gold miners agree pay deal, avert strike
29 July 2009 Reuters
South Africa's biggest union agreed a wage deal with gold and coal producers on Tuesday, averting a strike in the crucial mining industry and easing political pressure on President Jacob Zuma.
But council workers stayed on strike for a second day in the latest stand-off between Zuma and the unions, who helped sweep him to power in an April election and now want the president to fulfil his promises to help improve living standards.
South Africa is suffering its first recession since 1992 which unions say has hit the country's poor hardest.
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