Both Amcu and Sibanye-Stillwater confirmed strike action had been ongoing at the company's South African gold mines, including Beatrix in the Free State, and Driefontein and Kloof in Gauteng ...
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 ...
Mining management standpoint. Between February and December 1920, gold nose-dived from 130 shillings an ounce to 95 shillings an ounce. Mining executives estimated that unless costs could be reduced, most producing mines would be running at a loss; consequently, they would have to discharge 10,000 white miners and many thousands …
Pic: AP. At least 500 workers are being held down a South African gold mine by a rival union, according to the head of the site. The incident began when miners …
In 1941 the pay disparity between black South African mine workers and white South African workers was R70 to R848, respectively. The African Mine Workers' Union (AMWU) formed in response to address this issue. ... By 16 August 1946 the strike ended. Gold production had dropped by 169,000 tons, the lowest it had been since 1937. …
Hundreds of workers have left an underground gold mine in South Africa after being prevented from leaving for three days. More than 550 workers were being held there against their will, after ...
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The contribution of Sibanye's South African gold operations to group earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA) has declined from about 16% during the previous strike ...
Police maintained a heavy presence at the mine throughout the day, October 25. 2023. Cape Town — Gold One has elected to speed up disciplinary action against …
Sibanye Stillwater, which employs 31,000 workers in gold mining, also mines platinum group metals in South Africa and the USA. The company is also involved in the mining of battery metals. The company is listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange and New York Stock Exchange.
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.
South Africa's two biggest mineworkers' unions said on Tuesday that workers at Sibanye Stillwater's platinum operations plan to go on strike to show their support for gold miners locked in a wage ...
WEBSPRINGS, South Africa (AP) — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground because of a union dispute left a gold mine in South Africa on …
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 owners' plan to reduce wages and replace the well ...
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 …
Some 90,000 South African gold miners are set to walk off the job, joining tens of thousands of other South African workers demanding higher pay. ... Meanwhile, "mine owners are warning that the ...
Print. RUSTENBURG, SOUTH AFRICA — Rebel miners blockaded more than 440 workers underground in a South African gold mine Friday amid tensions that …
Hundreds of workers at Gold One mine east of Johannesburg have embarked on a strike demanding the employer to expedite the balloting process for the new majority union.. A portion of the workforce at the mine is advocating for the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) to be recognized as the majority union, …
South Africa's gold mining sector has for some time struggled with ever-growing production costs at its deep mine operations and union strikes. ... In 2014, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union led the longest-ever platinum mining strike in South Africa, costing the platinum mining sector around about $2 billion in …
Hundreds of workers have left an underground gold mine in South Africa after being prevented from leaving for three days. More than 550 workers were being …
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.
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), said on Wednesday that 107 miners "have come back to the surface" at the Gold One mine, east of Johannesburg. …
A strike in South Africa's gold mining sector ended on Tuesday after a 2-year wage deal was clinched, unions and the Chamber of Mines said. The strike at AngloGold Ashanti, Gold Fields and ...
About 540 workers at Gold One International Ltd.'s Modder East mine have been prevented from returning to the surface by labor-union members after a dispute over recognition, according to a ...
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 situation remains tense at Gold One mine in Springs, with police firing rubber bullets and teargas at protesting AMCU workers. Workers affiliated with AMCU have been gathering at the mine since Sunday night, demanding a date for their union to be officially recognised as the majority union.
Sibanye Stillwater Ltd. have alleged that the almost two-month long strike at its South African gold mines is being used as leverage by labor unions for upcoming wage negotiations at its platinum ...
As anticipated last week, about 80,000 South African gold miners went on strike Tuesday night after wage talks broke down, threatening to cause millions of dollars in lost output in the crisis-hit ...
The two have been competing for bargaining rights over various South African mines, and their feuding was partially responsible for the Marikana massacre of 2012, when 34 miners on strike were ...
Gold One has succeeded in interdicting a strike in which more than 500 workers are being held "hostage" at its mine in Springs, allegedly by members of the …
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 400 South African gold miners who remained underground for four days, amid tensions between unions and the mine owners, returned to the surface …
The Chamber of Mines, an employer trade association, said that 220,000 to 230,000 black miners were on strike and that production had been ''significantly affected'' at 33 of the group's 99 mines.
March 8 (Reuters) - South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater Ltd has received a notice of strike at its local gold mining operations from two unions starting on March 9, the company said on Tuesday.
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.
"The main mining strengths of the last 120 years in South Africa have been gold, and, slightly more recently, platinum. The gold and platinum deposits in South Africa are unique.
Mining company Sibanye-Stillwater on Friday gave South African gold mine workers a higher wage offer, a month and a half into a strike at its gold operations in the country.
Google Scholar Cf. Richardson, P., and VanHelten, J. J., 'Labour in the South African gold mining industry, 1886–1914', in Marks, S. and Rathbone, R. (eds.), Industrialisation and Social Change in South Africa: African Class Formation, Culture and Consciousness, 1870–1930, (Burnt Mill, Essex, 1982), 82 –3;Google Scholar Davies, R ...
More than 200,000 black miners went on strike at 46 of South Africa's gold and coal mines Sunday night to support their demands for a 30% pay increase and demonstrate the growing political and ...