South Africa's long-divided mining unions have scored a win since forging a united front against the industry's largest employer as the country's labour arbitration body has cleared them to ...
The South African mining industries are experiencing many difficulties; one of them is the unrest of the communities protesting about unemployment and poverty. It is a common sense that mining industries have a certain number of people which it can employ. Not every person within a community can be applied in the mines. ...
Explore the rich history of mining in South Africa with our insightful feature. From the discovery of gold to the evolution of mining tech. MT. Menu. Search. Sections. Home; News; Analysis. Features. ... a 70,000-strong strike at platinum mines in 2014 and action involving nearly 20,000 platinum and gold workers between 2018 and …
February 1: All 17,000 workers are fired. February 16: One person is killed, and a policewoman and several civilians are injured. Sometime during clashes, the local …
March 8 (Reuters) - South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater Ltd has received a notice of strike at its local gold mining operations from two unions starting on March 9, the company said on Tuesday.
South African mining company Sibanye-Stillwater is set to meet unions this week over a looming strike at its gold operations in the country.
The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) has embarked on a strike at Ekapa Mine in Kimberley. The mine was previously owned by mining giant De Beers before they pulled out of the Northern Cape.
Despite the fact that the strike was defeated, ... The control of migratory labour on the South African gold mines in the era of Kruger and Milner. Journal of Southern African Studies, 2(1), pp.3-29. Hutt, W, H. 1964 p 51. Levy, N., 1983. The foundation of the South African cheap labour system. Indicator South Africa, 1(1), pp.31-32.
In 1941 the pay disparity between black South African mine workers and white South African workers was R70 to R848, respectively. The African Mine Workers' Union (AMWU) formed in response to address this issue. By 1946 the 12:1 ratio of pay had not changed, as black workers were paid R87 while white workers were paid R1,106.
Local African National Congress leaders were arrested and tried for treason and sedition. Workers at 32 of the 45 mines on the Rand had participated in the strike. Hundreds of …
The CCMA issued a certificate of non-resolution which allows unions to give a 48-hour strike notice. According to South African labour laws, labour disputes can be referred to the CCMA for conciliation. ... Sibanye Stillwater, which employs 31,000 workers in gold mining, also mines platinum group metals in South Africa and the USA. The …
South Africa's mining industry is again confronted by labour unrest. Production at the Marikana platinum mining complex run by Lonmin PLC, the world's …
Wildcat strike in South African mines. Workers at the Everest mine in South Africa have gone on wildcat strike about health and safety issues. Echoes of the past: Marikana, cheap labour and the 1946 miners strike. Chris Webb puts the Lonmin massacre in some historical perspective.
Recruited from the four corners of the country and beyond its borders in Malawi, Lesotho, Botswana, Swaziland, Mozambique and, up to 1973, Angola, the African miners are spread out from Randfontein to Springs …
However, evidence shows that on 14 August, just two days before the massacre, there was a joint agreement between the company's management and police that the strike should be broken in a decisive manner (source: Bureau of Investigative Journalism) The impact of Marikana. Economy. Mining is an important sector in the South African economy.
The group also became involved in the establishment of the South African Labour Bulletin as a vehicle to advance these leadership ideas. The Bulletin became a forum research on the democratic labour movement. ... were short by police while protesting, these mine workers were on strike against poverty wages. 12 were killed and 38 were wounded ...
Hundreds of workers at Gold One mine east of Johannesburg have embarked on a strike demanding the employer to expedite the balloting process for the new majority union.. A portion of the workforce at the mine is advocating for the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to be recognized as the majority union, …
Since then, the mining industry has become hugely important to the country, contributing roughly 202 billion South African Rand (roughly 10.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2023 to South Africa's ...
Today many mine workers belong to N.U.M. — the National Union of Mineworkers. N.U.M. is helping miners fight for their rights. But the mineworkers' struggle has a long history. Forty years ago, seventy thousand mine workers came out on strike. They wanted the mine bosses to listen to them. They were asking for ten shillings (one rand) a day. The strike …
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The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) says that it is currently locked in negotiations with management of the Impala Bafokeng Platinum Mine in Rustenburg in the North West. This in an attempt to resolve the workers' strike and issues related to it.. Yesterday, disgruntled miners embarked on a sit-in underground, bringing operations at …
As anticipated last week, about 80,000 South African gold miners went on strike Tuesday night after wage talks broke down, threatening to cause millions of …
South African miners out on strike. ... On average, a South African mine worker earns about $500 a month, even after a 10 per cent increase in wages this year. Source: Al Jazeera, ...
Striking miners at South Africa's second largest gold producer, Sibanye-Stillwater, say they are extending their strike until they get a pay rise. Thousands of …
the strike to disappear. We conduct our analysis using a dynamic CGE model of South Africa. JEL codes: C68, J52 Keywords: Platinum mining strike, computable general equilibrium, UPGEM 1 Introduction The labour strike in South Africa's platinum sector that started on 23 January 2014 became the country's largest and most expensive in history ...
JOHANNESBURG, May 27 (Reuters) - New South African mining minister Ngoako Ramatlhodi has pledged to mediate in a crippling platinum strike now in its fifth month and said the government needed to ...
The South African mining industry shed 20,000 jobs in the 12 months leading to June 2013, and that trend was set to continue due to low margins, cost pressures and volatile commodity prices. Additionally, labour costs in the mining sector account for 45% to 50% of total cost, while the global average was 30 to 40% of total cost, with …
As anticipated last week, about 80,000 South African gold miners went on strike Tuesday night after wage talks broke down, threatening to cause millions of dollars in lost output in the crisis-hit ...
Glencore Xstrata operations are down at three locations. Workers are on strike at three South African chromes mines owned by Glencore Xstrata Plc (LSE: GLEN), the fourth largest miner in the world.
South Africa's two biggest mineworkers' unions said on Tuesday that workers at Sibanye Stillwater's platinum operations plan to go on strike to show their support for gold miners locked in a wage ...
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