WhatsApp)
Mar 05, 2014· With South Africa's economy built on gold and diamond mining, the sector is also an important foreign exchange earner. But economists are concerned that continued strikes in major mining companies could damage the South African economy and hold back growth and employment.

Tsunami mining strike changes landscape Article Staff Reporter - 26 Jun 2014 Retrenchments in the platinum mining sector are now all but inevitable, say labour experts.

Jun 21, 2019· Families of mineworkers staging a sit-in underground at Lanxess chrome mine operations gathered at the mine, demanding to know the state of the undergroud strike.

Aug 30, 2013· The National Union of Mineworkers, which represents about 64 percent of gold miners in South Africa, will start a strike over pay from Sept. 3, the Chamber of Mines said.

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 grounds that it was false and that the recruiting of .

May 20, 2019· That year, the African Mineworkers Union went on strike, with 60,000 workers downing tools to demand higher wages, but police broke up the protest by killing 12 striking miners, establishing a conflict between mining unions and government forces that would be a .

Jan 21, 2014· On Monday, members of the Association for Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU) in South Africa issued mining companies with notices to go on strike within 48 hours.

Nov 15, 2019· South African Airways' future is hanging in the balance after its workers went on strike on Friday to demand higher wages and protest planned job .

The Rand Rebellion was a widespread strike amongst miners in the Witwatersrand area of the Transvaal Province in the former Union of South Africa. 2007 strike [ edit ] In 2007 the South African National Union of Mineworkers, which represents the nation's mineworkers, engaged in a series of talks with the Chamber of Mines, an industry group.

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.

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.

Feb 28, 2019· The world's biggest platinum miners won a reprieve after a South African court reserved judgment on whether to block a week-long industry strike that was scheduled to start Thursday night.

Dec 10, 2018· Back in 1987, South African President Cyril Ramaphosa – then a 34-year-old labor union leader – led 300,000 black miners in a strike that symbolized resistance to the apartheid regime.

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 downed tools over wages and job cuts, Minerals ...

Feb 26, 2019· South African platinum producers, the world's biggest miners of the metal, have asked a court to block a planned strike by one of the country's largest mining unions that the companies say ...

The Rand Rebellion (Afrikaans: Rand-rebellie; also known as the 1922 strike) was an armed uprising of white miners in the Witwatersrand region of South Africa, in March 1922. Jimmy Green, a prominent politician in the Labour Party, was one of the leaders of the strike.. Following a drop in the world price of gold from 130 shillings (£6 10s) per fine troy ounce in 1919 to 95s/oz (£4 15s) in ...

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.

Feb 15, 2019· In the past five years, South Africa's mining industry has faced some of the country's most prolonged and violent strikes over wages. For example, in the five-month strike in the platinum industry in 2014, nine people were killed.

Aug 27, 2020· South Africa: Strike Season Set to Hit South Africa As Labour Movement Sees Red. ... A section of the labour movement has declared a dispute over wage negotiations in the mining .

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.

Apr 06, 2017· Kusasalethu, which employs about 4,500 workers, has been a flash point for labour violence and strikes in recent years, threatening the viability of the mine and underlining the social risks of mining in South Africa. "Unprotected industrial action affects the mine's viability, its employees and their families," Harmony CEO Peter Steenkamp said ...

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 for Afrikaners such as ...

Coal companies in South Africa have signed a surprise wage deal with unions in an effort to avoid a wave of deadly illegal strikes that have rocked the country's gold and platinum sectors.

Oct 10, 2012· The hard truth of South Africa's mining industry is that it is characterised by the stringent, inflexible economics of being global commodity price takers, critically dependent on the Rand/Dollar exchange rate, whilst simultaneously being constrained by a largely fixed and inflexible input cost structure composed of labour costs (50% plus of ...
WhatsApp)