The ANC dismissed a call from the party’s youth wing on Thursday to nationalise the country’s mining and manufacturing industries.
NUM said on Tuesday that 50Â 000 construction workers would launch a strike over pay from next Wednesday, halting work across the economy.
The death toll from an underground fire that killed illegal miners at a disused gold mine rose to least 61 on Tuesday, Harmony Gold Mining said.
South Africa’s gold producers made an opening offer on Thursday of a 5% wage increase, which was rejected by workers who threatened to strike.
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/ 12 February 2009
China, Africa’s biggest emerging market partner, will overcome the economic crisis and resume its march into mining and infrastructure investments.
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/ 10 February 2009
South Africa expects the metal price downturn to get worse and affect the economy further through capital flight and job losses.
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/ 6 February 2009
Harmony Gold lifted its second quarter earnings due to a weaker rand, and said on Friday its output would rise this year.
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/ 18 November 2008
SA should see a ”modest” rise in platinum output in 2009 after a decline this year, but long-term mine expansions will be restricted by power supply.
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/ 31 October 2008
SA may face fresh power cuts early in 2009 because the level of voluntary energy savings has fallen below the required 10%.
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/ 23 September 2008
Top gold and precious-metals producer South Africa is wrestling with mounting mine deaths, putting the heat on mining firms to end the carnage.