Reuters reports — AngloGold Ashanti sacked 12,000 wildcat strikers who defied a deadline to return to work on Wednesday, the latest South African company to resort to mass firings after weeks of crippling labor unrest.
Thousands of stick-wielding strikers responded by rallying near the operations of AngloGold, the world's third-largest bullion producer, saying they would not buckle under company pressure. Full story…
