South Africa once was the world's largest gold producer. Falling gold prices, however, combined with costs of mining some of the earth's deepest gold reserves and a lower grade ore has taken ...

South Africa's Harmony Gold said on Monday a labour court had declared the ongoing wildcat strike at its Kusasalethu mine "unprotected" and required employees, who downed tools two-weeks ago, to ...

About 80,000 gold miners in South Africa walked out on strike on Tuesday night, raising fears of renewed violence in the crisis-hit industry and underlining the government's dwindling authority ...

JOHANNESBURG - A strike in South Africa's gold mines began on Tuesday with some workers failing to go underground for the evening shift, despite an appeal by President Jacob Zuma for a solution to ...

Inside a South African gold mine Jump to media ... Lonmin workers on strike after shooting Jump to media player Workers at Lonmin's platinum operations in South Africa have gone on a wildcat strike.

South Africa: 138 arrested in gold mine strikes near Johannesburg South Africa: 138 arrested in gold mine strikes near Johannesburg ... Illegal gold mining has plagued South Africa for the past few decades. Sibanye employs almost 4000 miners, and its operations would be significantly impacted were the strike to continue. ... South Africa ...

1946 African Mineworkers Strike. Home > Topic > 1946 African Mineworkers Strike. Topics 8. Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948 ... a body of men who owned the rich gold mines. The quarrel revolved around the Chamber's low-wage policy. This conflict greatly influenced the pattern and direction of trade unionism in South Africa. It ...

South Africa gold mining groups face tough pay talks ... But with last year's five-month strike in the platinum sector — the longest in South African mining history — fresh in people's ...

Coal miners wage strike looming ... Members of the South African National Union of Mineworkers from the Gold mining sector, demonstrate in front of the South Africa Chamber of Mines …

The longest strike in South Africa's history has ended. For nearly five long months, platinum miners affiliated to the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) held out against the arrogance and intransigence of the platinum mine bosses. On Thursday the business press broke the news that an "in principle agreement" had been reached between the platinum mines and the union.

About 1,700 miners of the Harmony Gold Mining in South Africa have staged a sit-in strike on Wednesday at 2.4 kilometers below the surface of the Kusasalethu mine in West Rand district of …

 · Harmony Gold is South Africa's third-largest gold producer. ... It all began with Lonmin's Marikana mine and a strike that was by far the most violent and deadly of all. ... ©2018 Forbes ...

Effects of the Mining Strikes on the South African Economy. July 18, 2014. 0. ... cost platinum and gold producers over R16-billion that year, when the current account gap was 5,2% of gross domestic product (GDP). ... Infographic: South Africa's platinum strike statistics.

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It was in that context of popular discontent and nationwide political protest that South Africa's largest-ever mineworkers strike took place.

 · South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers, the biggest labor group at gold mining companies in the country, said it's deadlocked over pay with the producers after numerous rounds of ...

 · As South Africa's Gold Mining Companies Decline In Production, Illegal Miners Thrive A recent accident in a gold mine in South Africa …

Gold mine workers in South Africa told mining companies they would strike in the coming days as producers and unions battle over wage rises, threatening a central part of the country's economy.

Num South Africa Gold Mines Strike. NUM calls for coal miners' strike | Fin24. The National Union of Mineworkers says it will ask its members in the coal sector to strike after ...

South Africa's share of global gold production has fallen sharply over the years and in the run-up to the strike, mining employers have given stark warnings of an industry on the path to ...

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Gold miner Andile Jeremiah illegally enters an abandoned — and deadly — mine in Roodepoort, South Africa. (Graeme Williams/For The Washington Post)

South Africa mining news. Explore related South Africa articles for more information on the South Africa mining industry. ... South African miner Gold Fields Ltd aims to extend the life of its ...

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. The workers' action was a response to the ...

The gold mining industry plays an important role in the lives of employees, communities and the country as a whole. This is Gold is an initiative begun by South African gold producers to provide insight into the gold industry, and its contribution to South Africa.

Thousands of miners in South Africa's gold sector downed tools on Tuesday as a fresh wave of industrial unrest hit the struggling mining sector in Africa's largest economy. The strike was ...

The strike was in reaction to the disciplinary procedures taken by the company against 40 employees following an earlier sit-in at the mine. The unprotected strike at Harmony Gold's Kusasalethu ...

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

Members of South Africa s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union Sunday voted overwhelmingly, with a show of hands, to go on strike at the AngloGold Ashanti, Harmony Gold and Sibanye Gold mines.

Amcu to strike at gold and platinum mines . ... Driefontein mine, Harmony Gold's Kusaselethu and Masimong mines, and at all of AngloGold Ashanti's South African operations. "The strike has ...

 · Operators of a South African gold mine negotiated with about 15,000 striking workers Monday after they walked off the job.

'End of South Africa's platinum mine strike signals end of ANC domination' Analysis: This is the first significant action taken by a non-ANC force in which black South Africans have won very real ...