The Labour Court has rejected an application by Amcu to prevent platinum mining companies from contacting employees directly during current strikes.
Judgment is expected on an interdict that was brought by Amcu to prevent Amplats and Implats from communicating wage settlement offers to mineworkers.
A negotiator says the firms involved in a dispute with the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union may be guilty of tax and wage evasion.
Two days after taking up his post, Ngoako Ramathlodi has established an intergovernmental technical team to resolve the strike in the platinum belt.
The body of a man found hanging from a tree in North West is believed to be that of a mineworker, while miners on their way to work have been beaten.
Employers on the platinum belt are committed to meeting again with a labour court judge in a bid to end the protracted wage strike.
The new mineral resources minister begins his tenure with a difficult task – seeking a solution to the country’s longest ever mines strike.
About 12 000 people affected by the Amcu strike on the platinum belt have received food from nonprofit organisations.
NUM says one of its members has been stabbed to death on his way to work at an Amplats mine, the fifth such killing in the past two weeks.
Some say the decision by a judge to take the labour deadlock back to mediation with her as mediator is "highly unusual".
The top three platinum producers have agreed to further court-mediated talks with Amcu in yet another attempt to reach agreement on wages.
The cost of Amcu’s 15-week wage strike and the data gathered from the mining companies’ SMS polls will be made public at the Labour Court.
Chris Griffith says the timing of comments he made about being paid fairly while a strike at the mine continues was "seemingly insensitive".
As tensions run high in Marikana, Numsa says it might strike with Amcu – whose members are demanding a R12 500 salary from Lonmin, Amplats and Impala.
Mining firms faced the logistical challenge of contacting 70 000 miners around the country when they decided to sidestep Amcu in wage negotiations.
At an undisclosed location, mine representatives will continue to meet with Amcu – whose members downed tools demanding a basic salary of R12 500.
The majority union on the platinum belt will meet with mining bosses on Tuesday for the companies to explain their latest offer.
Impala Platinum, Anglo American Platinum and Lonmin are due to meet with Amcu workers over a revised offer submitted last week.
As a three-month long strike by miners affects the platinum belt, Amplats says its Rustenburg operations are in a marginal financial standing.
The platinum strike has entered its 11th week and employees want to return to work but are being intimidated, says Lonmin chief executive Ben Magara.
Far from hurting the platinum miner, protracted labour action could put the firm on a better footing.
Platinum companies have claimed to be in touch with employees who want to come back to work but fear being killed by protesters if they do.
The country’s second largest lender of unsecured loans is setting aside more money for bad debt as mine strikes and a slow economy hit consumers.
The ongoing mineworkers’ strike in the platinum belt has reached a stage where the financial impact is becoming irreversible, say mining heads.
Amplats says a wage offer accepted by Numsa and the Uasa will be applied to all employees in the Numsa bargaining unit.
The ongoing strike in the platinum belt is having a detrimental effect on the pockets of not only miners, but the community at large.
Mines Minister Walter Chidhakwa says he is holding "interesting discussions" with Impala Platinum about building a base-metal refinery in Zimbabwe.
Attitudes of platinum producers and the majority union continue to harden as the strike enters it 6th week.
A contempt of court application against Amcu has been delayed in the Labour Court, says Anglo American Platinum.
Anglo American Platinum says the Amcu strike over wages has resulted in the mining giant losing hundreds of millions of rands in revenue daily.
The head of Anglo Platinum – the world’s largest platinum producer – has earned R17.6-million while the company struggles with wage negotiations.
Wage negotiations and a mediation process, aimed at resolving the Amcu strike at Lonmin, Anglo American and Impala Platinum, is expected to resume.