UPDATE 2-Miner attacked at South Africa's Amplats

(Recasts with miner discharged)

JOHANNESBURG, Feb 21 (Reuters) - A miner affiliated to the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was attacked and set alight at a mine belonging to South Africa's Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) AMSJ.J , police and the union said, the latest violence in the strike-hit sector.

Initial reports said the man had died on Friday morning. However the company and the union said he had been discharged from hospital after receiving treatment.

The NUM said the attackers were members of the rival Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). AMCU officials were not immediately available for comment.

AMCU emerged as the dominant union in South Africa's platinum belt in 2012 after winning over tens of thousands of members from the NUM in a vicious turf war that killed dozens of people and triggered a wave of wildcat strikes.

The hardline union is in its fourth week of a strike at Amplats, Impala Platinum IMPJ.J and Lonmin , demanding that monthly wages be more than doubled to 12,500 rand.

(Reporting by Zandi Shabalala; Editing by Ed Cropley)

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