Numsa members go back to work

Johannesburg - Striking engineering and metals workers have accepted an improved wage offer to end the country's largest-ever strike, their union said on Monday

Representatives for the nearly 200 000 workers who downed tools on July 1, said the lowest-paid worker would get a 10% pay increase each year for the next three years.

Union leader  Irvin Jim told Reuters that members were due to return to work on Tuesday.

The walkout by engineering and metals workers had halted production at automakers and affected construction at new power plants in South Africa, already struggling with electricity supply.