Migrancy and Militance: The Case of the National Union of
early 1970s to explain the apparent docility of the South African mining industry's half a million migrant workers.4 The argument that migrancy ... 'The Moral Economy of the Black Miners' Strike of 1946', 3tournal of Southern African Studies) 13 ( 1 986), pp. 1-35 . 5. See R. Southall, (ed.), Trade Unions and the New Industrialisation of the ...Web
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Unravelling Urgent Interdicts And Labour Strikes In South Africa: …
The courts in South Africa have consistently affirmed the importance of the right to strike. In the landmark case of National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa v …Web
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S.Africa's Transnet agrees three-year wage deal with majority …
Last week, the Minerals Council of South Africa said mining companies were losing 815 million rand ($45.27 million) per day in export revenue due to the strike, as major mineral export harbours ...Web
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Tracing the 1922 Strike | The Heritage Portal
The strike started on 10 January 1922, halting all gold mining activities, from Springs in the east to Randfontein in the west, causing 20 000 White and 180 000 Black mine workers to stand idle. The power stations of the Victoria Falls Power Company, supplying electricity to the gold mines and municipalities, excluding Johannesburg, also …Web
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Five miners freed from Gold One sit-in ordeal
Image: Thulani Mbele. Three mine workers managed to escape and two were released due to their medical conditions after being stuck in an illegal underground sit-in at Gold One mine in Springs, on ...Web
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South Africans rally to mark Marikana massacre 10th anniversary
Thousands of people gathered in the South African town of Marikana to mark a decade since dozens of striking workers were killed in the worst act of police violence since the end of apartheid. On ...Web
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Q&A: Understanding the Marikana strikes
9 Sep 2012. Johannesburg, South Africa – The town of Marikana in the North West province of South Africa made international headlines on August 16, when police opened fired and killed 34 miners ...Web
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Miners leave South Africa gold mine after 3 days underground in …
SPRINGS, South Africa — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South Africa on …Web
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Scandals and strikes: an uncertain future for platinum in South Africa
There are three major platinum mining companies in South Africa: Anglo American, Lonmin plc and Impala Platinum, and they have all fallen on hard times because of strikes, low demand and dwindling profitability. "At current prices, fully 70% of the platinum shafts in South Africa are losing money, across the industry, by our …Web
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South Africa: Mining unions extend strike over pay rise demands
Striking miners at South Africa's second largest gold producer, Sibanye-Stillwater, say they are extending their strike until they get a pay rise. Thousands of …Web
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Hundreds of miners leave South Africa gold mine after being …
Updated 1:16 PM PST, October 25, 2023. SPRINGS, South Africa (AP) — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground because of a union dispute left a …Web
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The 1913 and 1914 white workers' strikes
The gold mining industry on the Rand began in the 1880's and by 1913 there were 63 mines employing about 21 000 white workers and 200 000 black workers. Gold, the international money commodity, had a fixed price. This meant there was a certain constraint with regard to the costs of production because increases could not be passed on to the buyers.Web
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South African Miners' Strike Ends As Rand Strengthens
The South African miners' strike in 2019 was over the same topic: wages. However, the 2019 strike lasted five months, while the most recent strike lasted only three. The strike affected about 31,000 miners working in the mines of Free State and west of Johannesburg. The South African miners' strike ended with a deal set for a newly …Web
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Hundreds Held Underground In South Africa Gold Mine Protest
Rebel miners blockaded more than 440 workers underground in a South African gold mine Friday amid tensions that include a murder this week, the operator …Web
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Grounds for a Strike: South African Gold Mining in the 1940s
August 1946 has a special and romantic place in the annals of South African history. As an event it is celebrated in the popular history, as a critical marker in the history of the miners' struggles against a labor repressive gold mining industry.' The strike is invoked as a testimony to the capacity of African minersWeb
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Marikana Massacre 16 August 2012 | South African …
On 16 August 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West Province. The police killed 34 mineworkers, and left 78 seriously injured. Following …Web
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South Africa hit by investment strike, key mining employer says
The outages probably cut South Africa's output for platinum-group metals by 10% in 2022 and this year production could fall by a fifth, Froneman said. South …Web
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Report on the recent South African miners' strike | libcom
Submitted by loveletters on March 12, 2012. The wildcat strike at Rustenberg, the biggest platinum mine in the world, has ended. Production resumed Monday the 5th. The miners have gained nothing besides bitter experience, and 2000 of them have been left unemployed. This experience, however, makes it unlikely that the …Web
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The 1913 Mineworkers' Strike | South African History Online
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 …Web
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Media, Race and Capital: A Decolonial Analysis of
In 2012, the local media in South Africa including international journalists flooded the public with images and audio-visual footage of a protracted strike in the platinum mining sector in the ...Web
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After the massacre: life in South Africa's platinum mining belt
10. O n 16 August 2012, Thembisa Nkuzo was among a group of women who set out from their homes in Nkaneng settlement, in South Africa's platinum mining district, and began walking towards a ...Web
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Unions on strike at South African gold mines | IndustriALL
10 March, 2022 The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), affiliated to IndustriALL Global Union, and other unions, are on strike to push for wage demands after failed …Web
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South Africa's Powerful Labor Unions Dig in for Tough Wage
Contentious public and mining sector wage negotiations in South Africa could lead to more strikes that disrupt business operations and public services, with the potential to spur limited bouts of unrest. The Congress of South African Trade Unions demanded a 10% wage increase for public sector workers for the 2022-23 fiscal year in …Web
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S.Africa's Transnet strike ends as smaller union calls …
Last week, the Minerals Council of South Africa said mining companies were losing 815 million rand ($44.62 million) per day in export revenue due to the strike, as major mineral export harbours ...Web
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Rand Rebellion 1922 | South African History Online
Strikes. The New Year marked a strike on the collieries of the Transvaal. Strikes soon spread to the gold mines of the Reef, especially those in the East Rand, when electrical power workers and those in engineering and foundry occupations followed suit. By January 10, stoppage of work in mining and allied trades was complete.Web
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Another sit-in strike at Gold One as company dismisses 50 miners
About 447 miners at Gold One Modder East mine, Springs, have not resurfaced since Thursday night's shift in an alleged sit-in protest against dismissals. Ziyaad Hassam, head of legal at Gold One ...Web
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1946 African Mineworkers Strike | South African …
1946 African Mineworkers Strike. "Two hundred thousand subterranean heroes who, by day and by night, for a mere pittance lay down their lives to the familiar 'fall of rock' and who, at deep levels, ranging from 1,000 to …Web
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The global wave of miners strikes and the case for the …
In South Africa, industry publications are nervous over the prospect of renewed miners strikes. South Africa's mining output jumped 21.3 percent between March 2020, when the pandemic first ...Web
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Majority Union Signs Deal to End South Africa's Freight Transport Strike
Workers at South Africa's state-owned logistics firm Transnet gather in front of ship containers as they continue on a nationwide strike outside the Port of Cape Town amid talks to end a wage ...Web
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Marikana massacre: South Africa needs to build a society that's …
In her book Marikana: Voices from South Africa's Mining Massacre, Kate Alexander records (p. 25) that the striking miners 25) that the striking miners wanted their employer, Lonmin, to listen to ...Web
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