Around 12, 000 miners at another gold mine have downed tools in a wildcat strike, demanding more pay.

ECONOMIST: South Africa

South Africa has just seen the worst disturbances since the apartheid era, with 34 platinum miners shot dead during a wildcat strike.

ECONOMIST: Africa, oil and the West

After workers allied with the AMCU went on an illegal "wildcat strike" at Lonmin, police have unsuccessfully tried to get them to return to the mine.

WSJ: South Africa Labor Unrest Spurs Deadly Gunbattle

Back in August, when workers at a little known platinum mine called Marikana near the town of Rustenburg went on a wildcat strike, few economists were revising their GDP growth numbers for South Africa.

BBC: Strikes keep pounding South Africa's economy

The owners of Lonmin, a big platinum company, heaved heavy sighs of relief on September 18th, as workers at its mine at Marikana in South Africa signed a deal that ended a six-week wildcat strike that has left 46 people dead.

ECONOMIST: South Africa��s strikes

Production at the world's third-largest platinum producer came to a halt as workers, mostly rock drillers, embarked on a wildcat wage strike last Friday over a wage dispute.

CNN: August 17, 2012 -- Updated 0129 GMT (0929 HKT)

They pulled out of a voluntary no-strike agreement in protest, and at some prisons held wildcat strikes the first in their association's 68-year history.

ECONOMIST: Public-sector pay disputes