The Marikana case is a major indicator of the challenge facing South Africa in the area of socioeconomic rights.
History has taught powerful men that you can screw people over, but just pay your taxes. Pity Julius Malema wasn’t paying attention.
To make money from South Africa’s $28-million-a-day platinum industry an investor needs nerves, brains, faith and luck.
There is no getting away from the gravity of the situation facing South Africa and its people are facing fundamental choices about the future SA.
One thing governments are slow to learn is that you cannot deal with complex political threats through force, says Sam Sole.
Wildcat strikes in the platinum belt have entered a sixth week with no resolution in sight and investors are beginning to grow concerned.
Widening talk of the dispute over pay issues escalating into a ‘crisis for capital’ is raising serious questions about who is behind it all.
Damian Garside’s thoughts on the Marikana miners.
Is South Africa facing a widespread mining revolution capable of disrupting an industry vital to everything from job creation to foreign exchange?
High levels of credit may have contributed to the cocktail of factors that led to the bloody clashes between police and Lonmin strikers.
The NPA’s reputation has taken a hammering after the Lonmin killings, despite it having provisionally withdrawn the murder charges against the miners.
Mine security forces say they will be relying less on police than they would have before Marikana and be more ready to use deadly force themselves.
Our mining industry is being sucked into a vicious cycle as labour unrest spreads, with steep wage demands that the industry cannot afford.
The temperature can reach 45C underground and workers are at risk of heat stroke. They wear sleeveless vests and their bodies smeared with dirt.
The Chamber of Mines advocates public-private partnerships instead of more state involvement.
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/ 11 February 2011
The company has ceased pumping at its Grootvlei mine and water is rising at the rate of a metre a day.
A company owned by Northern Cape ANC chair John Block is to ask the Supreme Court of Appeal to validate an irregular mining permit.
Youth league president says ANC will take from Oppenheimers what belongs to the people.
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/ 5 November 2009
ANC secretary-general Gwede Mantashe on Thursday called for ”concrete ideas” on how the debate on the nationalisation of mines can be taken forward.
Thousands of miners with chronic diseases associated with their work may never get paid the compensation owed to them.
As with most commodities companies, both Xtrata and Anglo American have taken a knock in the global slow down as demand for their goods has plummeted.
Labour unions have welcomed the proposed delay in implementing the new mineral and mining royalties legislation as a good way to protect jobs.
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/ 11 February 2009
Trevor Manuel’s budget outlined cautious plans to aid some of South Africa’s struggling business sectors, namely mining and the motor industry.
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/ 3 February 2009
The National Union of Mineworkers on Tuesday said the Presidential Mine Safety Audit report released this week contained "extremely worrying trends".