Expelled ANC Youth League leader Julius Malema has called for workers at all SA’s mines to strike until the leaders of the NUM step down.
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union does not see why it should be part of the Marikana peace pact, says Jimmy Gama.
The mining catastrophe at Marikana has revealed a lack of credible leadership in the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which has lost support.
The killing of 44 people during the violent strike at Lonmin mines has highlighted the depth of internal politics between mining unions NUM and Amcu.
The figures show that striking platinum workers earn far more than they have told journalists.
A week after the Marikana massacre, it is not yet clear what the long-term social, political and economic repercussions will be.
The suggestion, presented with a sprinkling of muti, is that the 34 miners would not have been shot dead if some unseen hand had not been at work.
The National Union of Mineworkers seems to have failed its members, but will a union born of violence fare any better?
Julius Malema has told striking Marikana mine workers that they should die for their cause, and urged other mineworkers to join them.
Tell us what you think happened at Marikana mine in the North West, where over 30 people died in a shooting between police and strikers.
Violence has become the modus operandi of such strikes in South Africa and Lonmin is no exception, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu is "gravely concerned" about the violent protests at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, her office has said.
Police say no further incidents have been reported at Lonmin’s violence-stricken Marikana mine in the North West, where 10 people have been killed.
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.
Two security guards have been hacked to death at a Johannesburg mine operated by Lonmin in new violence between rival unions, say company officials.
NUM has handed a memorandum to Sasol Mining management demanding the union be recognised as the majority union.
The National Union of Mineworkers wants MPs to rework liquidation laws so that workers are paid out before investors when companies go bankrupt.
Union bosses punt ANC president as a friend of the working class ahead of leadership battles. Matuma Letsoalo reports.
President Jacob Zuma has defended his leadership of South Africa and the ANC at a meeting with the National Union of Mineworkers.
Zwelinzima Vavi says his absence from the programme of the four-day congress of the National Union of Mineworkers is not due to factional fighting.
National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) general secretary Frans Baleni has come under fire for a whopping R40000 increase in his salary.
The ANC has been keeping a close eye on two union leadership contests, namely the National Union of Mineworkers and National Union of Metalworkers.
Workers at the liquidated Pamodzi gold mine say they are in dire straits as Aurora continues to ignore a court order to pay them R4.3-million.
Shops owned by foreigners have been reportedly targeted by angry protesters to send a message to Implats management.
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/ 29 February 2012
Over 13 500 workers returned to work at Impala Platinum in Rustenburg, in what may be an end to the illegal strike.
Arriving to a rapturous welcome, Julius Malema has urged Implats mineworkers to resolve their strike by being "militant and radical, but peaceful".
An agreement has been reached to reinstate striking Impala Platinum mineworkers, the National Union of Mineworkers
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/ 19 February 2012
Between 350 and 400 people have been arrested for looting and malicious damage to property after an illegal mineworkers’ strike in Rustenburg.
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/ 16 February 2012
Striking workers from Impala Platinum have intimidated workers reporting for duty, angry with the ongoing impasse with the company.