Strike Crimping South African Mining Exports Is Poised to Worsen
Strike Crimping South African Mining Exports Set to Worsen. Kumba expects impact on iron-ore shipments of 120,000 tons/day; Labor action will also curtail The Associated Press. SPRINGS, South Africa -- Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground because of a union dispute left a gold mine in South Hundreds of miners leave South Africa gold mine after being
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Miners leave South Africa gold mine after 3 days underground in
Oct. 25, 2023 10:03 AM PT. SPRINGS, South Africa —. Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South The outages probably cut South Africa’s output for platinum-group metals by 10% in 2022 and this year production could fall by a fifth, Froneman said. South South African Investors Are on Strike, Biggest Mining Employer
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South African unions plan strike at Sibanye's platinum operations
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 South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) threatened on Friday to call a strike at mining companies De Beers, Exxaro and Petra Diamonds after failing UPDATE 1-South African union threatens strike at coal and
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South African court blocks mine union's plan for industry-wide strike
RUSTENBURG, South Africa (Reuters) South Africa’s labor court has rejected a request by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to South Africa’s largest mining union filed for industrial action at gold mining companies on Tuesday, raising the spectre of strikes in that sector after workers Strikes spread in South Africa’s mining sector Financial Times
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Miners' Strike: South Africa 1946 Encyclopedia
Miners' StrikeSouth Africa 1946 Source for information on Miners' Strike: South Africa 1946: St. James Encyclopedia of Labor History Worldwide: Major Events in Labor History and Their Impact dictionary. James, Wilmot G. "Grounds For a Strike: South African Gold Mining in the 1940s." African Economic History 16 (1987): 1-22. Moodie, T. Dunbar.But South Africa’s traditional gold industry has lost some of its shine over the last few decades, with gold production in steady decline. During the past two decades, gold mining companies have experienced South African gold loses its shine S&P Global
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Grounds for a Strike: South African Gold Mining in the 1940s
August 1946 has a special and romantic place in the annals of South African history. As an event it is celebrated in the popular history, as a critical marker in the history of the miners' struggles against a labor repressive gold mining industry.' The strike is invoked as a testimony to the capacity of African minersthe 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 historyThe Impact of the 2014 Platinum Mining Strike in South Africa:
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Unions on strike at South African gold mines IndustriALL
Русский. 10 March, 2022 The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union, and other unions, are on strike to push for wage demands after failed negotiations at Sibanye Stillwater gold mines. The strike began with the night shift on 9 March after Sibanye Stillwater’s fifth proposal on the wage negotiationsThe African continent is richly endowed with significant mineral, oil and gas resources, including large reserves of gold. As noted in the previous chapter, the continent is home to a large portion of the world’s mineral wealth, including 42 per cent of the world’s known gold reserves (Bush, 2008, p. 361).The continent’s largest producer of A History of Gold Mining in South Africa, Ghana and Tanzania
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Report on the recent South African miners' strike libcom
Submitted by loveletters on March 12, 2012. The wildcat strike at Rustenberg, the biggest platinum mine in the world, has ended. Production resumed Monday the 5th. The miners have gained nothing besides bitter experience, and 2000 of them have been left unemployed. This experience, however, makes it unlikely that the 12–14 August: 2 policemen, 2 security guards dead. The Marikana massacre was the killing of thirty-four miners by the South African Police Service (SAPS) on 16 August 2012 during a six-week wildcat strike at the Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana near Rustenburg in South Africa's North West province. The massacre constituted the most lethal useMarikana massacre
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COMBATTING ILLEGAL MINING Sibanye-Stillwater
in the underground mining areas of operating mines. Illegal mining is organised and sustained by crime syndicates. COMBATTING ILLEGAL MINING FACT SHEET 2020 Illegal miners, known in South Africa as zama zamas (a colloquial Zulu term meaning ‘keep trying’ or ‘take a chance’), are often heavily armed and, when trespassing on3:08. This article is for subscribers only. 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 joinStrike Crimping South African Mining Exports Is Poised to Worsen
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The prevalent and violent industrial action in the mining industry:
The right to strike is a fundamental human right recognized in international law and the South African Constitution. In South Africa, employees have a constitutional right to strike. Section 23 of the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996, provides all workers with labour rights including the right to strike.The strike went on for a week despite what South African History Online describes as “the most savage police terror”. Officially, the police and army attacked the unarmed workers, wounding 1 248 and killing nine. The A history of mining in South Africa (ZA)
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The Impact of the 2014 Platinum Mining Strike in South Africa:
For example, although this is narrow, the 2014 platinum mining strike in South Africa led to a reduction of 0.72-0.78% in the country's real GDP [23].10. O n 16 August 2012, Thembisa Nkuzo was among a group of women who set out from their homes in Nkaneng settlement, in South Africa’s platinum mining district, and began walking towards aAfter the massacre: life in South Africa’s platinum mining belt
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The 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike South African History Online
Introduction: Background to the Strike. The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the various groups in the four former colonies. The union was a victory for the British especially for the ‘uitlanders’ (foreigners) and mining magnates who wanted to unite the country; but it was a defeat South Africa, 2014. On 16 August 2012, Thembisa Nkuzo was among a group of women who set out from their homes in Nkaneng settlement, in South Africa's platinum mining district, and began walking towards a rocky outcrop just south of the Lonmin mine. Striking mineworkers had been camped out on "Marikana mountain" for After the Massacre: Life in South Africa’s Platinum Mining Belt
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South African police shoot dead striking miners The Guardian
After three minutes of gunfire, bodies littered the ground in pools of blood. The South African police ministry said more than 30 striking miners had been killed. Newspaper reporter Poloko TauNUMSA itself is on strike at ArcelorMittal South Africa (AMSA), the country’s largest steel producer, which was interdicted by a court last week. Outside of the mining sector, the bulk of South Africa’s unionized workforce are in the public service sector where most of the unions are affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Workers at Sibanye Stillwater's gold mines in South Africa have
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National Union of Mineworkers (South Africa)
Website. www .num .za. The National Union of Mineworkers ( NUM) is a mainly mining industry related trade union, an organisation of workers with common goals through organised labour, in South Africa. With a membership of 300,000 as of 2014, it is the largest affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West Province. The police killed 34 mineworkers, and left 78 seriously injured. Following the open fire assault 250 of the miners were arrested.Marikana Massacre 16 August 2012 South African History Online
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