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
The National Union of Mineworkers in KwaZulu-Natal on Tuesday called on the economic development minister Zweli Mkhize to help stop retrenchments.
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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".
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/ 20 November 2008
The National Union of Mineworkers has called for the release of the presidential audit on health and safety in the mining industry.
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/ 12 November 2008
Eleven thousand miners at the Gold Fields Beatrix mine in the Free State will down tools on Thursday as part of a day of mourning, NUM says.
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/ 21 October 2008
More than 500 workers at Anglo Coal, a division of global miner Anglo American, downed tools on Tuesday to mark the death of a worker.
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/ 15 October 2008
Mbhazima Shilowa was sharply criticised by the tripartite alliance on Wednesday, while Jacob Zuma prepared to discuss the breakaway movement on TV.
President Kgalema Motlanthe will not be easily influenced by the ANC’s leftist allies to make policy changes.
Three miners have died in the past two days from separate accidents, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday.
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/ 19 September 2008
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said it was saddened by Friday’s news of the deaths of another three mineworkers.
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/ 17 September 2008
The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Wednesday reported a fatality at Impala Platinum’s Rustenburg operations.
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/ 15 September 2008
A mineworker died at Anglo Platinum’s Amandebult mine in the early hours of Monday morning, the National Union of Mineworkers said.
South Africa’s biggest mineworkers’ union may call a strike at the jointly owned Two Rivers platinum mine over disputes which include wages.
SA has completed a nationwide safety audit of mines, and a report on its findings will be released ”soon”, an official said on Thursday.
More than 700 NUM members at the Helem diamond mine in Swartruggens near Rustenburg have downed tools to demand better wages, the union says.
Gold Fields workers have refused to be redeployed from South Deep to the Kloof and Beatrix mines, the National Union of Mineworkers says.
The National Union of Mineworkers has called off a strike over wages at diamond miner De Beers.
De Beers said on Thursday it was continuing wage talks with South Africa’s largest mine workers’ union in a bid to avert a strike.
Gold production was severely disrupted in parts of South Africa on Wednesday as thousands of mine workers downed tools to protest rising living costs.
The National Union of Mineworkers has declared wage disputes with three major mining companies, the union said on Thursday.
South Africa’s biggest miners’ union said on Wednesday it would down tools on August 6 in a national strike that could halt production.
Gold Fields, the world’s fourth-largest gold producer, on Friday confirmed that the illegal strike at its Beatrix mine near Welkom in the Free State had been called off.
An investment of R42-million was placed into a project for a medical aid for ex-miners on Thursday. The agreement aims to improve public health facilities that will be largely utilised by ex-miners in South Africa and neighbouring countries, for the benefit of medical examinations.
South Africa’s security chief on Friday accused rightwingers linked to the former apartheid government of fanning xenophobic violence that has spread to Cape Town, the second largest city and tourist centre. At least 42 people have been killed and thousands driven from their homes in 12 days of attacks.
Anti-foreigner violence in South Africa has already hit the mining sector, a mainstay of the domestic economy, and threatens to undermine confidence among international investors, analysts say. Even before the unrest broke out, the outlook for the South African economy was clouded by uncertainty.
Gold Fields’ South Deep mine remained closed on Monday ahead of a meeting between the company and the Gauteng mines safety inspector to determine whether conditions were safe enough for operations to continue. Nine people died at the company’s South Deep mine last Thursday.
South African stocks were sharply higher at noon on Monday, led by miners on stronger metal prices, while easing United States economic concerns added to the upbeat mood. Local cellphone firm MTN Group was in focus again on ongoing speculation that an Indian firm might launch a takeover bid for the company, traders said.
Mining operations at Gold Fields’ South Deep mine will resume on Monday, the company said on Saturday, two days after nine workers were killed in an accident. Gold Fields said no mining would take place at South Deep until after a meeting Monday morning between management, unions and a provincial mining inspector.
Nine miners have died after an accident at the Gold Fields South Deep mine near Randfontein in Gauteng, the chief inspector of mines said on Thursday. Thabo Gazi said he received a report about the accident at about 12pm. It is believed that a conveyance in an inclined shaft fell down the shaft after the rope snapped.
Working conditions that threaten the lives of mine workers flout the laws of the country, Minister of Minerals and Energy Buyelwa Sonjica said on Tuesday. ”Safety at work is a constitutional imperative that we all have to uphold,” she said at Anglo American’s Safety Summit in Johannesburg.
Intervention by the Commission for Conciliation, Mediation and Arbitration (CCMA) on Wednesday brought an end to the pay dispute between workers and management at the 2010 Soccer World Cup Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit. Spokesperson Lusanda Myoli said an agreement was reached after two days of intense negotiations.
Workers at the 2010 Soccer World Cup Mbombela Stadium in Nelspruit are still striking, while talks with management and the government continue, the National Union of Mineworkers said on Friday. About 500 workers downed tools on Wednesday morning demanding better pay.