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May 20, 2019· From the world''s largest handdug mine to strike action with fatal violence on both sides, South Africa''s mining industry has been one of the country''s most influential for over a hundred years. We look at the history of mining in South Africa.
The five month long strike affected both the workers and the mining companies. 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.
May 19, 2015· The long read: In 2012 a strike at the Marikana mine in South Africa ended in the killing of 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one man emerged who .
The white South African State was mobilised and rampant in defence of its cheap labour policy and big dividends for the mining magnates and big business. This marked the opening of a phase of intense repression by the racist regime of the day, led by Field Marshal Smuts, against the forces for change in South Africa.
Mar 15, 2019· South Africa''s labor court has rejected a request by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to hold an industrywide strike .
Aug 13, 2019· South Africa''s largest platinummining union has rejected initial wage offers from two of the world''s biggest producers and accused Sibanye Gold Ltd. of trying to provoke a strike. Sibanye''s ...
Sep 03, 2019· BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — After a prolonged strike and a string of workplace fatalities in South Africa, executives at SibanyeStillwater are leaning heavily on its Montana platinum mines to turn things around at one of the world''s largest precious metals mining companies. The firm posted a 19 ...
South Africa is home to the world''s biggest platinum group metals deposits and accounts for just over 90 percent of global production. The mining firms were considering the notices and vowed to "everything in their power" to prevent a strike, including legal action, the council said in the statement.
Nov 09, 2017· Coal miners wage strike looming . ... Some of the mining companies are also proposing onceoff payments as part of the wage offers. ... South Africa progressed into .
Sep 21, 2017· South Africa''s National Union of Mineworkers said on Thursday its members would go on an indefinite strike at Petra Diamonds Ltd''s Koffiefontein Mine in the Northern Cape of South Africa.
Location: Wonderkop, near Marikana, Rustenburg municipality, South Africa; 2014 South African platinum strike Wikipedia. The GDP of South Africa contracted in the first quarter of 2014, pulled down by the steepest drop in mining production (25% of which 19% was directly attributable to the strike.
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.
At least 15 mining firms in South Africa have received notices of strikes to be held next week in support of colleagues at SibanyeStillwater who downed tools over wages and job cuts, Minerals ...
Jun 25, 2014· After five months, South Africa''s platinum miners strike has ended with a deal that will see the lowest paid workers receiving increases of R1,000 (£55) a month.
Once South Africa''s most beloved precious metal, gold production has steadily declined over the last few decades. In the last 20 years, gold miners have only seen two years of positive annual growth (in 2002 and 2013). South Africa produced 83% less gold in 2018 than it did in 1980.
SA gold miners go on strike Jump to media player Some 80,000 gold miners in South Africa have gone on a strike to call for higher pay, but their union has significantly scaled down its demands.
Jun 25, 2014· After five months, South Africa''s platinum miners strike has ended with a deal that will see the lowest paid workers receiving increases of R1,000 (£55) a month.
Aug 17, 2012· MARIKANA, South Africa — The police fired on machetewielding workers engaged in a wildcat strike at a platinum mine here on Thursday, leaving a .
In 2014, platinum industry workers went on a strike that lasted five months. It was the longest strike in the history of South African mining. In 2019, a high court in Johannesburg approved the historic compensation deal for the miners who contracted the fatal silicosis disease when they .
Aug 31, 1987· More than 250,000 black miners agreed today to end South Africa''s largest and costliest strike after three weeks. The gold and coal miners failed to win any improvement over a prestrike .
The immediate impacts on local mining towns were particularly severe, but our research shows that the strike could also have long lasting negative impacts on the South African economy as a whole. We find that it is not the higher nominal wages itself that caused the most damage, but the possible reaction by investors in the mining industry ...
Miners'' Strike. South Africa 1922. Synopsis. In early 1922, white South African workers in the Witwatesrand gold mining region went on strike. The strike soon became a violent rebellion—sometimes known as the Rand Revolt—that pitted the white miners against the mine owners and the government.
economic sector in South Africa (Chamber of Mines South Africa, 2012). The South African unionised labour market is particularly active when it comes to wage negotiations which often results in strike action, however in recent days we have seen extraordinary increase in illegal strikes in addition to legal strikes (Gold Fields Limited, 2012).
May 28, 2014· Months of mining strikes in South Africa pushed its economy into contraction in the first quarter of this year, and with no resolution in sight, the outlook remains bleak. South Africa''s real ...
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