Early this year, 955 miners were temporarily trapped at another Sibanye-Stillwater mine in Welkom, after an electric cable outage during a storm.
NUM has hit out at Radebe on the IPP deal, threatening to end its support for the political party
The minister wants to breathe new life into an industry hamstrung by his predecessor
Mining communities and industry want the minister’s charter scrapped and talks restarted
Mineworkers at the Gupta-owned Optimum Coal Mine in Mpumalanga downed tools over the uncertainty of their jobs and the future of the mine.
Is he the one to rescue the ANC and South Africa? There is no telling from his contradictory record
Gwede may tout himself as ‘a solution looking for problems’ but has his own ambitions, insiders say
The recent outbreak of violence on the platinum belt has the industry fearing a repeat of Marikana
Numsa has revealed that its members working at gold mines in the North West have fallen under the scope of hired guns.
The Gupta family is battling to protect its interests in the mining sector.
Union leader Joseph Mathunjwa’s opponents say he is a ‘vampire’ and a ‘dangerous capitalist’
While union officials in the Klerksdorp area fight for control, its majority is being whittled away
The union is split after insider claims that its bosses reassured British investors after the massacre
A fight broke out when a group of National Union of Mineworkers disrupted a meeting where new branch members had just been elected.
Zuma and his cohorts appear to have little understanding of the true nature of the troubled grouping.
The employment figures are dire, and likely to get worse, until the economy picks up
"ANC deputy president Cyril Ramaphosa backed out from addressing the National Union of Mineworkers members for the third time this month."
The union is calling on the party to heal the rift it has created within the ‘delicate’ tripartite alliance
In an eleventh hour decision – Numsa has applied for a strike certificate in order to down tools at the country’s energy supplier, Eskom.
The union rejected a wage hike offer but its main demand is for certain workers to be declared non-essential and to have the right to strike.
In addition to shedding large numbers of members, the union is in dire financial straits.
The bottom end of the commodities cycle continues to inflict pain on mining companies and Anglo Gold Ashanti announced even greater losses on Monday.
The Chamber of Mines and National Union of Mineworkers have a case to answer about Ubank’s reckless lending.
New National Union of Mineworkers general secretary David Sipunzi wants to rebuild bridges within the fractured trade union federation.
Regional leader Mpho Phakedi wants Cyril Ramaphosa and Gwede Mantashe to become the next president and deputy president of the ANC and the country.
New National Union of Mineworkers general secretary David Sipunzi says his priority will be to return the union to its former glory.
The metalworkers’ union, bleeding members and money, is electing leaders who will have to stop the rot.
The platinum miner is in "constructive, transparent and progressive" talks with unions and says business’s long-term fundamentals are intact.
If minister Lynne Brown doesn’t fire Eskom chair Tsotsi and he doesn’t voluntarily step down either, the mineworkers’ union will remove him by force.
The statements "seek to distort the findings" of the report by the commissioner who was tasked to conduct an inquiry into the affairs of Pamodzi.
The Farlam inquiry has heard that Lonmin miners took their cue from the violent, but effective, protests at their neighbouring platinum firm.
Noting a decline of members in Amcu, NUM’s Frans Baleni says some workers are not happy with the wage agreement that ended the platinum strike.