The Congress of SA Trade Unions general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi has called for a review of all minimum wage agreements.
Despite the negativity about it among miners, the National Union of Mineworkers still believes that it can win them back, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
In media coverage of the strikes, no effort has been spared to demonise the National Union of Mineworkersm, writes reader Mathew Blatchford.
Although the National Union of Mineworkers has welcomed the police action, mine workers want their colleagues freed, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Platinum company Kameni’s promised sharing of profits has left communities, in Kalkfontein and Buffelshoek underwhelmed, writes Niren Tolsi.
A slow, sure, violent implosion appears to be building in South Africa’s largest and formerly most powerful union – the National Union of Mineworkers.
Hundreds of Amplats workers were turned away by police as they attempted to storm the NUM’s Rustenburg regional offices to cancel their membership.
Gold mine owners and unions representing striking workers say they have reached a deal aimed at ending months of industrial unrest.
Sacked Amplats mineworkers have marched to the regional office of the National Union of Mineworkers in Rustenburg to cancel their membership.
Sacked Anglo American Platinum miners have refused to accept their dismissals for embarking on a wildcat strike.
Following threats and intimidation of its members at Anglo Platinum, NUM has reported that the region’s chairperson was petrol-bombed at his home.
The Farlam Commission of Inquiry has been given a four-month deadline for completion – but matters could be moving too quickly.
Zwelinzima Vavi says the Congress of South African Trade Unions and the NUM will take forward mineworkers’ demands for better wages in all sectors.
Senior Congress of South African Trade Union leaders have called for drastic labour law changes, including the amendment of the Labour Relations Act.
Cosatu’s conference must be energised by the need to find a response to the crisis at SA’s mines, rather than enervated by ANC factional politics.
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 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.
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.
NUM has handed a memorandum to Sasol Mining management demanding the union be recognised as the majority union.
President Jacob Zuma has defended his leadership of South Africa and the ANC at a meeting with the National Union of Mineworkers.