Marikana: Cause and Effects | War Resisters' International
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.
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South Africa: platinum, labour politics and an ugly strike
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 …
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New South Africa mines minister pledges strike mediation
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 ...
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Gold One gets interdict against strike, 500 miners allegedly …
Gold One has succeeded in interdicting a strike in which more than 500 workers are being held "hostage" at its mine in Springs, allegedly by members of the …
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South Africa: Mining unions extend strike over pay rise …
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 …
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Mines in South Africa | Africa Mining IQ
As of January 2023, there are 552 mines in South Africa, all of them listed on Africa Mining IQ. South Africa is a mineral-rich country and listed as the largest producers of platinum (1st), coal (3rd), gold (6th) and diamonds (7th).
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South Africa's rail and port workers go on strike over wages
South Africa's rail, port workers to strike over wages list 2 of 3 South Africa submits $8.5bn plan for greener energy list 3 of 3 South Africa power cuts may not end in a year, Eskom says end ...
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The 1946 mine workers strike
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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Workers strike at Glencore Xstrata chrome mines in South Africa
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.
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Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
The Miners on Strike. The largest strike in South African history saw about 3,5-million mineworkers stop production in August 1987. Miners were tired of low pay, degrading tasks, the oppressive apartheid structure in the workplace as well as outside it. ... 75,000 workers failed to turn up for work on the night shift, and the next day a further ...
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Grade 8
Gold mining in South Africa typically involves methods such as panning, sluicing, dredging, hard rock mining, and by-product mining. For most effective gold mining in South Africa, the method used is hard rock mining, since reserves are typically fully encased in rock deep underground. ... In 1913, African miners went on strike over …
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Sibanye-Stillwater faces strike at South Africa gold mines
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 ...
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South African union plans wage strike at De Beers' Venetia mine
South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Tuesday said it was planning to strike at De Beers' Venetia mine after wage talks broke down, potentially disrupting operations at the diamond ...
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The Impact of the 2014 Platinum Mining Strike in South …
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 ...
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1946 African Mineworkers Strike
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 …
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South African miners strike for higher wages, 1946
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 …
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Wesizwe's Bakubung mine remains closed as unprotected strike …
JSE-listed Wesizwe Platinum has advised that the Bakubung Platinum Mine (BPM) remains closed owing to ongoing unprotected strike action since July 20. The company says its management is engaging ...
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Mining industry in South Africa
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 ...
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Report on the recent South African miners' strike | libcom
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 …
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Gold One mine workers strike again over union recognition
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, …
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Mine Operations in South Africa: Community and …
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. ...
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2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa …
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 …
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Report on the recent South African miners' strike | libcom
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.
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Gold miners to strike for R1,000 a month increase at
NUM and Amcu, the two biggest mine unions in SA, have demanded an increase of R1,000 per month over the next three years, similar to the amount Sibanye's …
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South African Mining 2024 Outlook: Navigating Challenges …
The year 2023 proved to be an exceptionally demanding period for the global mining industry, with South Africa facing multifaceted and far-reaching challenges. These challenges have pushed the sector into a state of crisis-mode management, which has become the norm in the management of South African mines.
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NUM engaging with Impala Platinum amid Rustenburg mine …
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 …
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De Beers 'confident' talks will avert strike at South Africa's Venetia mine
On Tuesday, NUM, South Africa's biggest mineworkers' union, said it was planning a strike at Venetia, as De Beers could only offer a 6% pay increase against demands for a 9% hike.
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South African Labor Unrest in Mining Deepens
In a speech to striking workers at a gold mine on Monday, Julius Malema, the firebrand former leader of the African National Congress Youth League, called for a national mining strike until wages ...
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The history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
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.
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South African gold mine operator to meet workers …
South African mining company Sibanye-Stillwater is set to meet unions this week over a looming strike at its gold operations in the country.
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