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Ramaphosa: People want the ANC to lead

Deputy president confident of victory ahead of municipal elections.

Mineworkers gathered in Marikana to voice their dissatisfaction with the Farlam Commission’s blasting of Amcu.

Marikana miners blast Farlam Commission report

Mineworkers in Marikana have blasted the Farlam Commission of Inquiry report for its findings against Amcu.

Mmusi Maimane said the DA would take the water to another community that needed it.

Police escort Maimane out of Tsakane

DA parliamentary leader Mmusi Maimane tried to deliver water to a community near Brakpan, but ANC residents chanted and booed him out of town.

Public Works Minister Thulas Nxesi has defended the department’s plans to spend R203-million on upgrading President Jacob Zuma’s homestead in Nkandla.

Marikana commemoration rally snubs ANC, NW officials

ANC and NW government officials were conspicuously absent at a rally to commemorate slain miners on the second anniversary of the Marikana massacre.

An estimated 100 000 miner workers affiliated to Amcu went on strike on Thursday to demand major wage increases.

Amcu members arrive in numbers at Labour Court

Members of Amcu have turned up in droves as the Labour Court was to hear the Chamber of Mines’s bid to prevent an Amcu strike in the gold sector.

Still no agreement in platinum strike

Three major platinum producers have dismissed reports of an agreement in the long-standing wage dispute with mining union Amcu.

EFF leader Julius Malema won over the crowds at the final rally over the weekend.

Malema calls on platinum miners to intensify strike

EFF leader Julius Malema has told mineworkers in Rustenburg to intensify their strike for a better wage.

An estimated 100 000 miner workers affiliated to Amcu went on strike on Thursday to demand major wage increases.

Amcu rejects latest platinum settlement offer

Amcu has come out strongly against the latest offer to end the three-month-long strike in the platinum sector demanding an "honourable settlement".

Platinum town gripped by fear and hunger

People staying near platinum mines in Rustenburg in the North West are starving and living in fear.

An estimated 100 000 miner workers affiliated to Amcu went on strike on Thursday to demand major wage increases.

Mine security and striking Amplats workers clash

Striking mine workers retaliated to being sprayed with water cannons by pelting security officials at the Khuseleka mine in Rustenburg with stones.

Security cluster meet Mandosela over provisional Nkandla report

Security cluster ministers have met Thuli Madonsela following the M&G’s reporting on the provisional Nkandla report, says an official.

North West Premier Thandi Modise.

Modise: Marikana murders violate peace accord

Murders at Marikana resulting from union rivalry between the NUM and Amcu has violated the peace accord signed in February, says Thandi Modise.

Man attacked, car torched near Amplats mine

A man has been assaulted near Amplats mine, where hundreds of miners downed tools in an attempt to force the mine not to retrench 3 300 workers.

Miners disrupt Trevor Manuel’s Ruth First lecture

Minister in the presidency Trevor Manuel was heckled at the University of the Witwatersrand by protesting mineworkers during a Ruth First lecture.

The case against the foiled heist perpetrators on Monday shows a growing trend among organised criminals where in some cases former SANDF members and police officials are involved.

ANC councillor shot dead in KZN

The murder of KZN councillor Makhosonke Msibi is deeply saddening and not only a blow to local government, but a worrying entrenchment of a trend.

Amplats management unsure of striking miners’ demands

Underground protest action at Amplats’s Tumela mine in Limpopo is continuing, but management says it still does not know what miners’ demands are.

Less than half of designated public abortion clinics actually provide the service. Here’s how we know that.

Mantashe: Mines want to ‘hijack and steal our revolution’

The ANC’s secretary general says mines don’t want the NUM around because it is fighting exploitation, adding new unions have nothing to offer members.

The Rustenburg strike coordinating committee says the protest at Anglo American Platinum will continue despite earlier claims to the contrary.

No end in sight for Amplats strike

The Rustenburg strike coordinating committee says the protest at Anglo American Platinum will continue despite earlier claims to the contrary.

Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi. (Madelene Cronje, M&G)

Cosatu vows Amplats miners will be reinstated

Cosatu, during their protest march in Rustenburg, vowed that all dismissed Anglo American Platinum mineworkers would be reinstated.

The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union is demanding that the minimum wage at Amplats is more than doubled to R12 500.

Second man killed in Rustenburg during violent Amplats strike

Police say a second man has died during violent protests by striking miners at the Nkaneng informal settlement in Photsaneng near Rustenburg.