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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 ...
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.
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.
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 .
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.
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 ...
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.
Mining Weekly covers realtime news on mining projects across a range of minerals including gold, platinum, diamonds, copper and ferrous metals.
The strike changed the nature of politics in South Africa. The brutal reaction of the state was no accident. The state deemed it necessary to ensure that mining production continues at all costs.
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...
May 20, 2019· From the world''s largest handdug 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. The Big Hole mine in Kimberley is believed to be the deepest handdug excavation in the world.
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 .
The South Africa miners strike was a one day strike by the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa over working conditions and safety in the country''s mining industryIt was the first ever industry wide miners'' strike in South African history. SA Labour News. This news aggregator site highlights South African labour news from a wide range ...
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 .
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.
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...
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 ...
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.
Jun 25, 2014· MARIKANA South Africa (Reuters) Tens of thousands of South African platinum miners returned to work on Wednesday after wage deals ended the longest and most damaging 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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