SAfrica union rejects latest gold sector wage offer

JOHANNESBURG, July 14 (Reuters) - Workers in South Africa's gold sector rejected the latest wage hike offer by the gold producers of between 8 and 10 percent, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Tuesday.

"NUM has this morning rejected the Chamber of Mines' offer of between 8 and 10 percent from gold employers and will escalate the dispute on July 21," NUM spokesman Lesiba Seshoka said.

The union said on Monday the latest offer may not be enough to avert a strike. (Reporting by Agnieszka Flak)