Introduction 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
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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
Oct 08, 2020 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 to reach wage agreements
Mar 20, 2014 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
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
Aug 31, 1987 The strike, although ostensibly over wages and working conditions, was widely seen as the beginning of a battle for South Africa's wealth between
Feb 22, 2019 At least 15 mining firms in South Africa have received notices of strikes to be held next week in support of colleagues at Sibanye-Stillwater who
Feb 28, 2019 Court reserves decision over interdict on labor action Union had planned to start strike with night shift Thursday The world’s biggest platinum miners won a reprieve after a South African
Dec 01, 2015 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 negative impacts on the South
Aug 23, 2021 Four days after the public assassination of Malibongwe Mdazo, an organizer of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA), the South African police are yet to make an arrest. Mdazo had led the strike last month by 7,000 workers in Rustenburg city’s five mining companies contracted to Impala Platinum Holdings Limited (Implats
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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
Over that period, there was either a service delivery protest or wildcat strike or march every second day that impacted mining operations in one way or the other
Feb 07, 2018 South Africa on verge of nice breakthroughs in hydrogen, says new SAIMM president 17th August 2021 By Martin Creamer. Speaking to Mining Weekly in a Zoom interview, Geldenhuys expressed the view that all the big mines with big moving machinery will have the opportunity to move away from diesel and switch to a hydrogen-based fuel system because of the contained ecosystem
Jul 18, 2014 Mining production decreased by 6,5% year-on-year in May 2014, reports Statistics SA. The crippling strike action that began on 23 January in the platinum sector has had a negative impact on total mining production. The largest negative growth rates were recorded for PGMs (-48,5%), other non-metallic minerals (-13,3%) and building materials (-11
Oct 05, 2015 The strike is expected to worsen, and comes at a time when South Africa is facing a severe shortage of electricity. The country meets approximately 77% of its energy needs from coal. South Africa consumes almost three quarters of the 255 million tonnes of coal produced domestically
Apr 08, 2015 The move comes ahead of wage talks in South Africa’s coal, gold and diamond sectors expected to begin next month. In March, the NUM said it may
Aug 16, 2021 On 16th August 2012, the South African Police shot dead 34 platinum rock drillers on strike for a living wage from Lonmin (London Mining). Lonmin used to be a subsidiary of Lonrho, a notorious company founded during Cecil Rhodes’ brutal white supremacist occupation of southern Africa. The miners were on strike for a wage of R12,500 a month