Mining Strike South Africa

Sibanye Stillwater, which employs 31,000 workers in gold mining, also mines platinum group metals in South Africa and the USA. The company is also involved in the mining of battery metals. The company is listed on the Johannesburg …

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 Congress Executive in 1941.

Striking South African miners armed with homemade spears and pangas chant slogans near the Marikana platinum mine on August 16, 2012. Rising tensions at the mine exploded into grisly violence ...

The National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA) went on strike at the Impala Platinum mines in Rustenburg this week. Among the key demands raised by the workers is an end to exploitation by labor contractors ... Soon after the strike began, Reagetswe Mining approached the Labor Court in Johannesburg in an attempt to block the action ...

In this paper we measure the economy-wide impact of the 2014 labour strike in South Africa's platinum industry. The strike lasted 5 months, ending in June 2014 when producers reached an agreement with the main labour unions.The immediate impacts on local mining towns were particularly severe, but our research shows that the strike could also have long lasting …

As South African mining grapples with numerous challenges and opportunities, stakeholders in the industry must navigate the complex landscape by fostering collaboration, embracing technological advancements, and ensuring sustainable operations. Despite the hurdles, the mining sector remains a critical pillar of South Africa's economy, holding ...

During a four-day operation at the abandoned South Mine in Sabie, Mpumalanga, police rescued 153 suspected illegal miners. The multi-agency operation also recovered three …

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 ...

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.

More than 2,200 platinum miners on Monday launched the fourth underground protest to hit South Africa's crucial mining industry in two months. Operations were suspended …

Unlawful mining is rampant in resource-rich South Africa. Some of the proceeds are reportedly used to fund criminal organizations. The standoff at the disused mine in the …

Fine and Rustomjee posit that South Africa has been a leading global supplier of minerals and mineral products for a long time.Neingo and Tholana aver that the mining industry in South Africa directly adds about 7% to the country's gross domestic product (GDP).Also, the industry is responsible for at least R540 billion in exports each year, which is 66% of all …

South African studies on industrial action in the mining industry have examined the national economic effect of strikes in platinum mines, while others examined strike effects on financial ...

More than 2,000 workers occupy a platinum mine in South Africa for the second day in a row on Tuesday, causing concern among families as the company tries to push for an end to one of the...

A wage strike at South Africa's port and freight-rail operator that's curbing mineral exports is set to worsen as members of more labor unions join the protest. ... like the mining sector, but ...

RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — As South Africa's biggest post-apartheid mine strike marks its eighth week on Thursday, it is already denting growth and export earnings, and many of those affected ...

It has been estimated that the gold miners' strike could cost South Africa more than $30m (£20m) a day in lost output. Mine owners are warning it could lead to gold mines closing and thousands of ...

Impala Platinum Mine Strike South African Mining Sector. Share 0 Facebook Twitter Pinterest Email. Adenike Adeodun. Adeodun Adenike Dorcas boasts over four years of extensive experience in human capital management. …

Over 30,000 workers are expected to walk picket lines starting at 18:00 local time, DW Akademie reported.. NUM wants a 14 percent increase in wages for miners and officials plus a 13 to 14 percent ...

South African mining union National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) are holding an indefinite strike at the Nkomati Nickel Mine in eastern Nkomati demanding bonus pay.

South African Airways (SAA) announced on Thursday, 5 Decmeber that it had cancelled flights to Perth and Sao Paulo following confirmation from the SAA Pilots Association (SAAPA) of a planned strike due to a deadlock in pay negotiations. The decision to cancel these routes was made on Wednesday, 4 ...

The union, which has around 300,000 members, plans to march to Sibanye Stillwater's offices in the West Rand on 11 May to strike over previous and planned mass …

Meanwhile, however, the Guardian, a progressive South African weekly, the only paper which totally supported the strike, was sued by four mining companies for 40,000 pounds for publishing the Unions memorandum on the …

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.

urban centers of South Africa, including strikes by African sanitary workers in Johannesburg and by Colored and Indian dock workers in the country's major ports, and culminated in a strike by 70,000 African mine workers that disrupted gold production for nearly two weeks. The crushing of the 1920 mine strike curtailed Black labor

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-running mining strike on the national ...

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 employee ...

A strike in South Africa's gold mining sector ended on Tuesday after a 2-year wage deal was clinched, unions and the Chamber of Mines said. The strike at AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields and ...

Helena mine, South Africa . ... The company said the strike began after a member of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union said a shift supervisor had assaulted him. The 200 workers ...

More than 30,000 coal miners in South Africa have launched an indefinite strike after discussions over wages failed. Being led by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the strike is expected to continue until the workers and their employers reach a solution.