Families in Pondoland, a traditional source of labour, bury their men and primary earners who worked at Lonmin.
The Johannesburg Stock Exchange has reached record highs despite forecasts of a fall amid the global crisis and deadly strikes at Marikana mine.
Striking Lonmin workers have vowed to stay away from work until their demand for a R12 500 monthly wage is met.
Lonmin mines has estimated that at least 57% of workers across the eastern shaft at their Platinum mine in Marikana have returned to work.
Observers fear the presidential inquiry into the tragedy at Marikana will not reveal the whole truth or prove who was responsible for the massacre.
The figures show that striking platinum workers earn far more than they have told journalists.
A rights issue makes sense and could be good news for investors, an analyst claims
The events at Marikana last week have cast such a long shadow that right now it seems we have just two options: doom or gloom.
A week after the Marikana massacre, it is not yet clear what the long-term social, political and economic repercussions will be.
Statistically speaking, a Marikana massacre occurs many times every year beneath the surface of South Africa’s mining badlands.
The National Union of Mineworkers seems to have failed its members, but will a union born of violence fare any better?
The crisis surrounding events at Lonmin platinum mine has deepened after workers rejected overtures by the government to rescue the situation.
The massacre has laid bare the gross failure of leadership to acknowledge the festering discontent in the bosom of our economy, writes Jay Naidoo.
Lonmin must not fire workers who don’t return to work today, the police minister says, out of respect for the week of mourning declared by the state.
Lonmin’s shares have slid as investors fret over a possible cash call to shore up its balance sheet and the potential dismissal of striking workers.
The "macho culture" at platinum mines in North West is a major social ill behind the flare-up of violence that has left at least 10 people dead.
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NUM must ask itself how it has lost control of the mineworkers and ceding its majority to an even more disorganised unit, writes Rapule Tabane.
Violence has become the modus operandi of such strikes in South Africa and Lonmin is no exception, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
An attempt by the police to disperse striking workers at Marikana’s troubled Lonmin mine has ended in a shootout between the two groups.
Amcu seems to have gained ground at the Lonmin mine after the NUM president was ejected from the union meeting, following violence that left 10 dead.
A 10th body has been discovered at Lonmin’s troubled Marikana mine in the North West, about 100m away from a hilltop where workers gathered earlier.
Trade union AMCU says the National Union of Mineworkers is responsible for the violence which left nine dead at the Marikana mine in the North West.
Nine people have been killed at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in the North West, police said on Monday evening.
A man at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in the North West has been killed – the third death resulting from union violence there.
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/ 25 November 2011
Police have finally made a breakthrough in the three-year saga of intimidation and attacks on Lonmin Western Platinum refinery employees in Brakpan.
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/ 30 September 2011
Eight employees at the Lonmin process division smelter in Marikana have been suspended after refusing a company demand to declare their assets.
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/ 9 September 2011
Workers at Lonmin’s Western Platinum refinery have complained that its management has done nothing to stop the abduction and torture of its employees.
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/ 2 December 2008
As the last month of the year began, prospects for a good 2009 for South African mineworkers grew dim as possible large-scale retrenchments loomed.
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/ 17 October 2007
Transformation and community engagement in the mining industry is a painful but crucial process, the Chamber of Mines sustainable development conference was told on Wednesday. Richards Bay Minerals’ strategic manager, Thabi Shange, said: ”Transformation is painful, cumbersome … It does not imply an easy ride of free will.”