SOUTHAFRICAN LABOR DISPUTES TAKE A VIOLENT TURN: CO-WORKER KIDNAPPED.

It is a new, dangerous trend in the sometimes treacherous world of South African mine-labor disputes: dissatisfied miners are violently taking their co-workers hostage.

 Mmamiya Mayane was a few hours into her shift at a gold mine when three colleagues emerged from an adjacent corridor. Pickaxes in hand, the men told Mayane and her team to follow.

 “They angrily said, ‘Don’t ask questions.’”