ANC heavyweight Gwede Mantashe has been accused of playing a "xenophobic card" by suggesting white foreigners were interfering in the ongoing platinum mining strike.

"We condemn this attempt by the ANC to again play a racist, xenophobic card," the Workers and Socialist Party said on Monday.

Deputy general secretary Liv Shange said in a statement this was done to detract from how the African National Congress-led government and the capitalist economy...read more here: Gwede Mantashe xenophobic: party