About 15,000 South African truckers will return to work, after the companies offered higher pay. The unions called on the last group of truckers on strike, about 28,000, to return to work. The truckers' strike has hurt fuel supplies and the delivery of goods across South Africa, even as unrest continues in the mining sector. Two mines announced this week that they had fired thousands of workers for illegal strikes, leaving the future of those disputes uncertain. A government workers' union also says that it will strike in the next week.
See "About one third of South African truckers end strike", Agnieszka Flak and Wendell Roelf, Reuters, October 8, 2012