Striking miners at a Lonmin-owned platinum mine in South Africa have agreed to return to work on Thursday, mediators and reports say.
Miners cheered when they were told of a proposed 22% pay rise, a witness told Reuters news agency.
But South Africa's labour dispute body told the BBC it was waiting to hear if the latest pay offer had been accepted.
Last month, police opened fire on demonstrators at the mine in Marikana, killing 34 striking workers.
Production at the mine has been paralysed for weeks and unrest has spread to other mines.
The Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration told the BBC a delegation of workers representatives had gone to inform the striking miners of the latest offer this afternoon.
The workers, most of who are rock drill operators, gathered at a football pitch near the Marikana mine to hear the address. They have been demanding a salary of 12,500 rand ($1,513; £935) - they currently earn between 4,000 and 5,000 rand.
"What has happened here has been a victory really for the workers, and they're going to work on Thursday morning," AFP news agency quotes mediator Joe Seoka, the Bishop of Pretoria, as saying.
Bishop Seoka, from the South African Council of Churches, told the BBC there would also be a one-off payment of 2,000 rand to help cover the weeks of not being paid while they were on strike.
He refused to give any further details of the offer.
On Monday, President Jacob Zuma said that the disruption had cost the industry $548m (£337m) in lost output.
19 Sep, 2012
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Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19641510#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=PublicRSS20-sa
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