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 …
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 …
In the case of a labour strike, the right to strike presents an additional complication that employers, mine management and contractors must consider. The right to strike is a fundamental pillar of labour relations in South Africa. It is enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of South Africa and further dealt with in the Labour …
South African mining company Sibanye-Stillwater is set to meet unions this week over a looming strike at its gold operations in the country. On Monday, a spokesperson for the company, which has ...
More than 2,000 miners at Implats' Platinum mine near Rustenburg in the North West remained underground on Monday afternoon after an illegal protest started at two shafts earlier in the day.
On 12 August 1946 African mine workers of the Witwatersrand went on strike in support of a demand for higher wages - 10 shillings a day. They continued the strike for a week in the face of the most savage police …
International Labor and Working-Class History No. 83, Spring 2013, pp. 137–142 This note reflects on the August 2012 miners' strike at Marikana, South Africa in light of a century long history of violence associated with worker actions in that country and elsewhere in the Global South. It suggests that the breakaway union's allegedly 'illegal ...
Striking platinum mine workers march together in Marikana, near to the site of 2012's massacre. Image by Jason Larkin. South Africa, 2014.
Protesters gather at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa on August 17, 2012 where the day before 34 people were killed when police opened fire on striking mineworkers.
A group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding around 500 of their colleagues underground for the second day at the mine over a union dispute. …
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 wage ...
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 ...
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 …
Since then, the mining industry has become hugely important to the country, contributing roughly 202 billion South African Rand (roughly 10.9 billion U.S. dollars) in 2023 to South Africa's ...
In democratic South Africa, the government allows citizens to express dissatisfaction through peaceful demonstrations. Workers are also allowed by legislation to embark on strikes when disputes with their employers arise.
The management of the mine refused to negotiate with the strike committee. After hiring non-union miners, it reopened the mine on 11 June 1913. 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
More than 100 miners who had been underground for nearly three days amid a standoff between rival South African labour unions have returned to the surface.
More than 2,000 workers occupy a platinum mine in South Africa for the second day in a row on Tuesday, causing concern among families as the company tries …
THE nationwide strike launched last week by more than 300,000 black miners has caused new political uncertainty in South Africa. The strike raised the spirits of the anti-apartheid movement ...
South African studies on industrial action in the mining industry have examined the national economic effect of strikes in platinum mines, while others examined strike effects on financial ...
Operators of a South African gold mine negotiated with about 15,000 striking workers Monday after they walked off the job the night before, a company official said.
The 34 miners in the Lonmin mine in Marikana, South Africa, died after police opened fire on a gathering of thousands of machete-armed workers striking for higher wages.
South Africa's work days lost due to strike action rose more than 30-fold in the six ... About 31,000 workers at Sibanye Stillwater Ltd's three gold mines in South Africa embarked on a three ...
On 13 August, 30 miners were delegated to cross the veld (field) that separated them from another Lonmin platinum mine, Karee, where miners were also undergoing a wildcat strike. The 30 miners …
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 …
Glencore Xstrata operations are down at three locations. Workers are on strike at three South African chromes mines owned by Glencore Xstrata Plc (LSE: GLEN), the fourth largest miner in the world.
A Salute by the South African Communist Party to South Africa's Black Mine Workers. Big Events Have Small Beginnings . The beginning of the first real mass trade union for South Africa's black miners was a small event - so small that history records very little about it, save that the initiative came from a meeting of the Transvaal African National …
RAYMOND, Maine — South African miners at the Sibanye Stillwater Mine ended their three-month strike on June 6, 2022, due to promises of increased monthly wages and annual bonuses. Three days after the strike ended, the economic situation for South Africans improved even more as the rand officially strengthened globally, …
SPRINGS, South Africa (AP) — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground because of a union dispute left a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, mine officials and the union at the center of the standoff said.. More than 100 miners who police and mine officials said were held against their will by fellow employees of the …
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.
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.
JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 4 South Africa's crucial mining sector was hit Tuesday by its biggest strike in two decades, as tens of thousands of workers stayed home to protest poor safety conditions that ...