The management of the mine refused to negotiate with the strike committee. After hiring non-union miners, it reopened the mine on 11 June 1913. General J.C. Smuts, a former minister of mines in South African and the current Minister of Defense and Finance and the acting minister of Justice in South Africa met with the strike committee on 19
On 16 August 2102, 34 striking miners were killed by the South African Police Service at a platinum mine in Marikana in the north-west of South Africa. The massacre recalled the kind of violence that was supposed to have disappeared with the end of apartheid in 1994. This article examines the context in which the massacre occurred, …
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), said on Wednesday that 107 miners "have come back to the surface" at the Gold One mine, east of Johannesburg. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4
More than 2,000 workers have remained underground Tuesday, Dec. 19 in two shafts at Implats' Bafokeng Rasimone Platinum Mine in the North West province of South Africa for a second day in a protest over pay and benefits.
More than 250,000 black miners agreed today to end South Africa's largest and costliest strike after three weeks. ... The biggest previous mine strike was in 1946, when about 100,000 miners walked ...
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 ...
Mining accounted for 4% of gross domestic product in 2022, employed about 476,000 people and generated 878 billion rand ($50 billion) of exports, according to the Minerals Council South Africa, a ...
The unprotected underground protest action at Impala Bafokeng's platinum mine, which began on Monday, ended with all miners safely returning to the surface by …
When South Africa's GDP growth numbers for the first quarter are announced at the end of the month, the destructive impact of the country's longest …
AMCU, which in 2014 led the longest ever platinum mining strike in South Africa, plans to negotiate jointly with the rival National Union of Mineworkers, Gama said.
A Salute by the South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers. Big Events Have Small Beginnings . The beginning of the first real mass trade union for South Africa's black miners was a small event - so small that history records very little about it, save that the initiative came from a meeting of the Transvaal African National …
The strike at South Africa's logistics utility Transnet could impact manganese exports from the world's top producer, Australia-listed Jupiter Mines said on Friday.
The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers were the first to challenge not only their employers, but the racist policies of the segregationist state of Jan Smuts.
Miners' Strike. South Africa 1946. Synopsis. In August 1946 the African Mine Workers Union (AMWU) in South Africa called a strike of black miners in the country's Witwatersrand gold producing region. The strike was the first widespread action taken by African workers since 1920.
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. ... By the time a deal was reached, the strike had become the longest and most costly in South African history. After the strike, Anglo American …
South Africa. Striking miners at South Africa's second largest gold producer, Sibanye-Stillwater, say they are extending their strike until they get a pay rise. …
Protesters gather at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa on August 17, 2012 where the day before 34 people were killed when police opened fire on striking mineworkers.
The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in …
About 540 workers at Gold One International Ltd.'s Modder East mine have been prevented from returning to the surface by labor-union members after a dispute over recognition, according to a ...
Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, the union at the center …
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The parties must give 48 hours' notice to each other prior to any strike or lockout action, the CCMA said. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), Association of Mineworkers and Construction ...
The Chamber of Mines, an employer trade association, said that 220,000 to 230,000 black miners were on strike and that production had been ''significantly affected'' at 33 of the group's 99 mines.
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Over 4,000 contract workers launched an indefinite strike on Monday, June 20, at the Impala Platinum mines in Rustenburg in South Africa's North West province. The action was organized by the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA).
South African mining company Sibanye-Stillwater is set to meet unions this week over a looming strike at its gold operations in the country. On Monday, a spokesperson for the company, which has ...
The nationwide strike comes as South Africa grapples with the economic impact of global events such Covid and the war in Ukraine. Under the gaze of Pretoria's Union buildings - the office of ...
Safety and security: a timeline of the AMCU strike at Sibanye-Stillwater. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) is one of South Africa's most influential mining unions, boasting a quarter of a million members and recently pushing gold miner Sibanye-Stillwater to agree to a new wage deal using a five-month …
More than 2,000 mineworkers who staged an underground sit-in at Impala Platinum's Bafokeng Rasimone mine in South Africa came back to the surface on Wednesday, the company said, ending a three-day ...
Protesters gather at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa on August 17, 2012 where the day before 34 people were killed when police opened fire on striking mineworkers.
