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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.

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 ...

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 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 .

Aug 17, 2012· South Africa is home to fourfifths of the world''s known platinum reserves but has been hit by union militancy and a sharp drop in the price of the precious metal this year. At least three people...

Aug 17, 2012· Video shows workers under a hail of bullets shot by police. The police say they were trying to protect their own lives. For more CNN videos, check out our Yo...

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. Additionally, labour costs in the mining sector account for 45% to 50% of total cost, while the global average was 30 to 40% of total cost, with employee ...

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.

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 .

As one of South Africa''s leading economic historians, Hobart Houghton noted, South African mining has always been an epic of applied science. Professor Chris Barnard put South African surgery on the global map with the world''s first heart transplant in 1967, but South African mining engineering had long since already been on that map.

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.

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...

South Africa: Mining Strikes the Costs to SA''s Economy. 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.

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.

Mining Weekly covers realtime news on mining projects across a range of minerals including gold, platinum, diamonds, copper and ferrous metals.

Aug 16, 1987· THE nationwide strike launched last week by more than 300,000 black miners has caused new political uncertainty in South Africa. The strike .

The 1946 African miners strike signified a shift in public conscience, and was widely considered the beginning of what would later become the antiapartheid movement. This strike, " was led by the African Mine Workers Union, whose president, Marks, was also a leader in the South African Communist Party." (Workers World newspaper, Aug. 29 ...

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 fivemonth strike in the platinum industry in 2014, nine people were killed.

153 killed The Rand Rebellion (Afrikaans: Randrebellie; 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.

After hiring nonunion miners, it reopened the mine on 11 June 1913. General 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.

The recent spate of strikes in the mining sector in South Africa has created a perceived nervousness amongst shareholders. Within the mining sector in South Africa, gold mining is of significance historically and economically. This study aims to assess the impact of strikes on shareholder value in the gold mining industry

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.

A wave of strikes occurred across the South African mining sector. As of early October analysts estimated that approximately 75,000 miners were on strike from various gold and platinum mines and companies across South Africa, most of them illegally.

But it also now has a tarnished reputation, after platinum miners in South Africa held a wildcat strike for higher wages at the Lonmin mine and 34 of them were shot dead by police.
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