Platinum stockpiles and a market surplus mean the mineworker strike is almost convenient for the mining companies.
Striking miners are getting state help – but only if they are early, and South African.
SA’s new mining minister will sit down with company and union officials in a last-ditch attempt to end the platinum sector’s long-running strike.
Strike talks between government, platinum miners and Amcu are due to resume after reports the mineworkers’ union rejected a pay offer by government.
A chemicals and precious metals multinational says excess supply means platinum miners are suffering more from the work stoppage than buyers are.
A new report says platinum mines could have afforded to pay workers more.
The mineral resources minister says parties are close to finding a solution to the platinum mining strike, although critics are skeptical of this.
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.
Wage negotiations have reached the point where the mining firms have to report back to their shareholders and Amcu has to speak to its members.
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.
A team of officials from various departments will meet mining bosses and Amcu over strikes in the platinum belt.
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.
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.
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.
The NUM says its members will not return to work at the platinum mines until "conditions are safe and the intimidation" by Amcu stops.
Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa is taking the mining giants to labour court, saying their SMS campaign violated an agreement with the union.
Joseph Mathunjwa is worried about what is happening in the platinum belt, saying it is reminiscent of the run-up to the Marikana massacre.
Miners burnt tyres, barricaded roads and set roadside stalls alight near Lonmin’s platinum mine to stop fellow strikers from returning to work.
Mining firms faced the logistical challenge of contacting 70 000 miners around the country when they decided to sidestep Amcu in wage negotiations.
A fund to help mineworkers will receive a boost as residents and businesses in the North West platinum belt continue to face economic hardships.
As miners prepare in the hope that workers will return to the shafts in defiance of their union, more police have been sent to the platinum belt.
Mining companies approaching workers directly with their latest offer could lead to instability on the platinum belt, according to the union.
Bent but unbowed by the crippling strike, Rustenburg Impala’s rugby team has triumphed.
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.
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.