The Economic Freedom Fighters is unapologetic about its support of the mineworkers' demand for a R12,500 minimum wage, spokesman Mbuyiseni Ndlozi said on Sunday.

"This support is a political support and that is why the EFF has pronounced on it in its elections manifesto that R12,500 must be a minimum wage in the entire mining sector," he said in a statement.

Ndlozi was reacting to African National Congress secretary general Gwede Mantashe questioning whether...read more here: EFF unapologetic about strike support