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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.

Mining Tharisa has right to sell all of $4.2bn Zimbabwe platinum mine Oct 17 2019 16:00. Tharisa, the publicly traded South African platinum and chrome miner run by the Pouroulis family, has the right to take over a platinum mine project in Zimbabwe that could ultimately cost $4.2bn.

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 ...

The white South African State was mobilised and rampant in defence of its cheap labour policy and big dividends for the mining magnates and big business. This marked the opening of a phase of intense repression by the racist regime of the day, led by Field Marshal Smuts, against the forces for change in South Africa.

In 2014, platinum industry workers went on a strike that lasted five months. It was the longest strike in the history of South African mining. In 2019, a high court in Johannesburg approved the historic compensation deal for the miners who contracted the fatal silicosis disease when they .

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.

Nov 09, 2017· Coal miners wage strike looming . ... Some of the mining companies are also proposing once-off payments as part of the wage offers. ... South Africa progressed into .

Sep 21, 2017· South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers said on Thursday its members would go on an indefinite strike at Petra Diamonds Ltd's Koffiefontein Mine in the Northern Cape of South Africa.

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.

Aug 17, 2012· MARIKANA, South Africa — The police fired on machete-wielding workers engaged in a wildcat strike at a platinum mine here on Thursday, leaving a .

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 .

Nov 22, 2018· South Africa's Sibanye-Stillwater (JSE:SGL) (NYSE:SBGL) has halted all its gold mining operations in the country after violence broke out overnight during a strike .

Dec 24, 2018· South Deep is the world's second largest gold-bearing ore mine, but has been unprofitable for a decade, due to deep deposits and rising costs.The strike which began on November 2 ended on December 13. The mining house reached a settlement with the workers, with retrenchments going ahead as planned. Sibanye-Stillwater

Location: Wonderkop, near Marikana, Rustenburg municipality, South Africa; 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.

Aug 13, 2019· South Africa's largest platinum-mining union has rejected initial wage offers from two of the world's biggest producers and accused Sibanye Gold Ltd. of trying to provoke a strike. Sibanye's ...

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 pre-strike .

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.

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.

Once South Africa's most beloved precious metal, gold production has steadily declined over the last few decades. In the last 20 years, gold miners have only seen two years of positive annual growth (in 2002 and 2013). South Africa produced 83% less gold in 2018 than it did in 1980.

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 those affected are having to sell their most ...

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 recent days we have seen extraordinary increase in illegal strikes in addition to legal strikes (Gold Fields Limited, 2012).

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.

South Africa is home to the world's biggest platinum group metals deposits and accounts for just over 90 percent of global production. The mining firms were considering the notices and vowed to "everything in their power" to prevent a strike, including legal action, the council said in the statement.
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