Mining Industry
Many Australians support the minerals resource rent tax because they believe the resources belong to the nation, so all Australians should benefit from the mining companies' profit through the MRRT. REUTERS

South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Monday it had reached a wage deal with employers in the coal sector to end a week-long strike that threatened supplies to power plants in Africa's biggest economy.

"They are going to be signing the offer... the strike will be called off," NUM's spokesman Lesiba Seshoka told Reuters.

South Africa