AngloGold Ashanti Limited
(Incorporated in the Republic of South Africa \ Reg. No. 1944/017354/06)
ISIN No. ZAE000043485 – JSE share code: ANG \ CUSIP: 035128206 – NYSE share code: AU
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News Release
30 January 2014
Threatened strike by AMCU declared unprotected by Labour Court interim interdict
(ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI – Press Release) AngloGold Ashanti is pleased to advise that South
Africa’s Labour Court has today ruled that a strike threatened by the Association of Construction and
Mineworkers Union (AMCU) at the company’s South Africa mines would be unprotected, and that
employees should continue to proceed to work. The ruling given by Judge Edwin
Molahlegi, on
behalf of Judge Hamilton Cele, ruled that AMCU must return to court on 14 March 2014 to explain
why this interim interdict that was applied for by the Chamber of Mines should not be made
permanent.
AMCU sought to proceed with strike action on a number of gold mining operations with effect from
20 January 2014 in relation to the wage agreement that was finalised in September 2013 in the gold
sector between the employers and the National Union of Mineworkers, UASA and Solidarity and
which was applied to all employees in the represented bargaining units. Together, these three
unions represented 72% of employees in the sector. The agreed increases and improved benefits
were backdated to 1 July 2013 and all employees, irrespective of union affiliation, have been in
receipt of these since September 2013.
An urgent interdict brought to the court by the gold producers was heard on 19 January, and
Judge Cele ordered that strike action be held in abeyance until today’s ruling.
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