South Africa miners union strike takes off | Reuters
Dec 04, 2007· South Africa's biggest miners' union launched a one-day national strike on Tuesday to protest against deaths in the country's mines, disrupting operations across the world's top producer of ...
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South Africa's Mining Strike Ends. What Now? – The Short ...
Jun 24, 2014· The fractious five-month strike that shuttered South Africa's platinum and palladium mining industry is over. Prices have yet to feel the full effects, and political tensions in other producing ...
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A history of mining in South Africa (ZA)
Such events are rooted in a strike led by the African Mine Workers' Union in August 1946. Miners of the Witwatersrand were demanding higher pay: an extra 10 shillings a day. 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 ...
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The mining industry strike wave: what are the causes and ...
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 ...
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South Africa platinum miners to strike - BBC News
Jan 21, 2014· South Africa platinum miners to strike On Monday, members of the Association for Mineworkers & Construction Union (AMCU) in South Africa issued mining companies with notices to go on strike within ...
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Mining strikes: The costs to SA's economy | SAnews
Mar 05, 2014· South Africa is a world leader in mining, and mining remains the back bone of the country's economy. It has been so since the precious metal was discovered in Johannesburg around 1887. The country's huge and varied mineral reserves play a vital role in the economy, accounting for nearly half of the country's merchandise exports, including ...
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The effects of strikes in the South African gold mining ...
the mining income to the GDP from 2002 to 2011 thus making it an important 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 …
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South African coal miners go on strike – Workers World
Oct 15, 2015· Some 30,000 South African coal miners downed their tools on Oct. 4 over a wage dispute. This strike was organized by the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), a key affiliate of the Congress of South African Trade Unions, which is an ally of the ruling African National Congress (ANC) party. NUM has blamed the mining firm bosses for the failure ...
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Strike hits South African mining industry | World news ...
Aug 06, 2008· Strike hits South African mining industry This article is more than 11 years old. Anil Dawar and agencies. Wed 6 Aug 2008 07.24 EDT First published on Wed 6 Aug 2008 07.24 EDT.
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Miners' Strike: South Africa 1946 | Encyclopedia.com
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 ...
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Platinum Miners Win Reprieve as South Africa Strike ...
Feb 27, 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.
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Scandals and strikes: an uncertain ... - Mining Technology
Jan 12, 2016· Strikes have been a familiar aspect of the South African mining history, most memorably with the Markiana massacre in 2012. The strike started at a Lonmin mine near Rustenburg, and 41 mineworkers were killed by police. In response, a wave of further strikes swept across the sector.
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The impact of the 2014 platinum mining strike in South ...
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 ...
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South African Platinum Miners Agree to End Strike - WSJ
Jun 23, 2014· Mining analysts from J.P. Morgan in South Africa estimated Monday that a total of 1.1 million ounces, or about 15% of global annual mined production, was lost so far as a result of the strike.
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Why South Africa's Mining Strikes Are Symptoms of a Much ...
Sep 11, 2012· Miners Strike outside the Lonmin platinum minus on Sep. 10 AP Photo/Themba Hadebe The deadliest protests South Africa has seen since the end of …
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South African union threatens strike at ... - Mining Zimbabwe
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. NUM, one of the biggest mining unions in South Africa, said it had secured a certificate to stage a strike after talks on a wage settlement
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Numsa members down tools at Reagetswe Mining over union ...
Jun 08, 2021· Members of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa ( Numsa ) are on strike, to force their employer, Reagetswe Mining Services, which is contracted to Impala Platinum mine at Rustenburg in the North West, to recognise their union.. Reagetswe Mining Services, has allegedly refused to deduct union affiliation fees and pay them to Numsa, as per the wish of the majority of the …
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South Africa: Mining Strikes - the Costs to SA's Economy ...
Mar 05, 2014· VIDEO: Hunger, Anxiety as South African Mining Strike Wears on. 5 March 2014. SAnews.gov.za (Tshwane) South Africa is a world leader in mining, and mining remains the back bone of the country's ...
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The African Mine workers strike of 1946 | South African ...
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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Effects of the Mining Strikes on the South African Economy ...
Jul 18, 2014· Effects of the Mining Strikes on the South African Economy. A wave of violent, wildcat strikes that erupted periodically in 2012 rooted in a turf war between AMCU and the National Union of Mineworkers, cost platinum and gold producers over R16-billion that year, when the current account gap was 5,2% of gross domestic product (GDP). Mining ...
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The Strike That Brought South Africa's Platinum Mining ...
Feb 07, 2015· However, the ramifications for Rustenburg, for South Africa, and for the entire mining industry were severe and far-reaching, and the full impact still not quantified. Impala Platinum, which mines, refines and sells platinum group metals, is one of the three big mining companies affected by the strike action, together with Anglo Platinum and ...
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Strike - Strike Technologies
Strike Technologies has grown to be a leading South African developer, manufacturer and distributor of globally competitive Medium Voltage Protection Relays, Surge Suppression Equipment, Industrial Earth Leakage Relays and Smart Energy and Demand Metering.
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The impact of the 2014 platinum mining strike in South ...
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 African …
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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) in 50 years. It was the first contraction since 2009. Fitch Ratings downgraded its outlook on South Africa to "negative" from "stable".
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Aura Energy recommences field work at Tasiast South ...
Jul 20, 2021· ASX-listed Aura Energy has recommenced field work at the Tasiast South gold / base metal project in Mauritania, West Africa. Aura Energy has now mobilised two geophysical crews from South Africa to undertake detailed gravity surveying on all three of Aura's tenements at Tasiast South.
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Transvaal Miners General Strike 1913 | Global Nonviolent ...
General J.C. Smuts, a former minister of. mines in South African and the current Minister of Defense and Finance and the. acting minister of Justice in South Africa met with the strike committee on 19. and 22 June 1913 but was unwilling to concede to their demands. On 20 June, police arrested 5 strike.
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South African Platinum Miners Agree to End Strike - WSJ
Jun 24, 2014· Mining analysts from J.P. Morgan in South Africa estimated Monday that a total of 1.1 million ounces, or about 15% of global annual mined production, was lost so far as a result of the strike.
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Miners' Strike: South Africa 1922 | Encyclopedia.com
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.
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The 1987 mineworkers strike - Mining Weekly
Sep 27, 2013· The ballot of 210 000 mineworkers, taken on August 2, 1987, indicated that 95% supported the strike. Thus, with the overwhelming support of its members, the NUM called for a general strike ...
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Mining strikes shrink South Africa's economy
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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South African Miners Strike for Better Safety Conditions ...
Dec 05, 2007· Dec. 5, 2007. JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 4 South Africa's crucial mining sector was hit Tuesday by its biggest strike in two decades, as tens of thousands of …
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South Africa mining strike to spread to at least 15 firms ...
Feb 23, 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 on strike over wages and job cuts, Minerals Council South Africa said on Friday. The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has been on strike …
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History of mining in South Africa: The key events ...
May 20, 2019· From the world's largest hand-dug 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.
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2012 SA mining strikes for dummies - South African news ...
Oct 18, 2012· Mining strikes will have a large impact on South Africa's future. It's exposed a gap between elected union and political leaders on one side and the workers they represent on the other.
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Agreement marks end of South Africa platinum mining strike ...
Agreement marks end of South Africa platinum mining strike. The world's top three platinum producers and the upstart union that led an unprecedented five-month strike signed an agreement on ...
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South African miners to strike | Reuters
Dec 03, 2007· South African miners to strike. JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Mines in South Africa, the world's top producer of precious metals, will fall silent at …
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Miners beg union to end South Africa's longest strike
Jun 12, 2014· By Zandi Shabalala RUSTENBURG South Africa (Reuters) - Workers and shop-stewards from South Africa's AMCU mining union begged leader Joseph Mathunjwa to sign a wage deal with three major platinum firms on Thursday at a mass rally crowning five months of crippling protest. As the longest strike in the 130-year history of South Africa's mines showed its first signs of breaking, …
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MINERS END STRIKE IN SOUTH AFRICA WITH NO WAGE GAIN …
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 pre-strike …
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