A workers’ representative has confirmed that workers from several mining companies in the North West will unify in a mass strike in the new year.
Despite the negativity about it among miners, the National Union of Mineworkers still believes that it can win them back, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Families in Pondoland, a traditional source of labour, bury their men and primary earners who worked at Lonmin.
Lonmin mines has estimated that at least 57% of workers across the eastern shaft at their Platinum mine in Marikana have returned to work.
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/ 11 December 2011
Anglo American has been sued on two continents by miners wanting to be paid out after falling ill due to exposure to dangerous levels of dust.
Over 2 000 members of the National Union of Mineworkers are to march to the Cullinan offices of Petra Diamonds to hand over a memorandum of demands.
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/ 17 November 2010
The National union of Mineworkers called the South African Chamber of Mines liars for saying there has been an improvement on safety in mines.
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/ 30 September 2010
It was a bold, even desperate attempt by China’s leaders to cut the shocking death toll in its pits: send the bosses down the shaft with the miners.
Psychologists ‘happily surprised’ by condition of miners after 19 days on shift foreman’s strict rationing in underground bunker.
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/ 25 September 2008
Migrant workers in the SADC region are being doubly punished when it comes to recouping social security, writes Stuart Rothgiesser.
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/ 4 February 1994
The mining industry’s fledgling Aids agreement has struck its first rock.