Amcu is considering a government proposal to resolve a five-month platinum strike and will put it to its members this week.
Wage negotiations have reached the point where the mining firms have to report back to their shareholders and Amcu has to speak to its members.
Eskom may not have enough power during peak hours for platinum mines in the Rustenburg area to resume operations when the strike is finally resolved.
The top three platinum producers have agreed to further court-mediated talks with Amcu in yet another attempt to reach agreement on wages.
Platinum belt miners are angry and glaring wage inequality is at the root of their dissatisfaction.
Rapula Moatshe is swept into a march of defiant mineworkers on their way back from the now sacred Marikana koppie.
The red berets have won over a large number of former ANC supporters in North West, despite the party being less than a year old.
To strike is to suffer through wageless months at the mines on the platinum belt in North West, but the alternative is unthinkable.
Miners burnt tyres, barricaded roads and set roadside stalls alight near Lonmin’s platinum mine to stop fellow strikers from returning to work.
EFF leader Julius Malema has told mineworkers in Rustenburg to intensify their strike for a better wage.
Platinum mining companies have expressed their disappointment following news that Amcu’s marathon strike will enter its 15th week.
As a three-month long strike by miners affects the platinum belt, Amplats says its Rustenburg operations are in a marginal financial standing.
Far from hurting the platinum miner, protracted labour action could put the firm on a better footing.
Marikana has scarred villagers in the Eastern Cape, where the ANC is losing further ground.
Businesses in the platinum belt are floundering as the mass Amcu strike enters its tenth week.
Talks aimed at ending a six-week platinum miners’ strike has fallen apart after producers rejected a revised wage demand.
A new union for platinum miners in Rustenburg, the Workers’ Association Union, plans to meet mining companies to end the strike immediately.
The CCMA has met the platinum producers’ mediators in talks aimed at ending Amcu’s strike at three platinum mining companies.
Amcu’s refusal to revise its wage demands reflect little regard for potential job losses, says platinum producers.
Amcu, the dominant union in the platinum sector, looks likely to win recognition at Kumba Iron Ore, which announced an increased profit on Tuesday.
The SABC has reported that police allegedly shot and killed a miner during protests at the Amplats plant near Northam in Limpopo.
Negotiations between the world’s three largest platinum producers and the majority union have stalled as protest actions ensue in the North West.
The mineworkers’ union is back at the table with platinum producers in an attempt to end the now two-week mineworker strike.
Government mediators have placed an offer on the table that they hope will end the platinum strike.
Talks between Amcu and mine executives are scheduled to continue after the union rejected the latest wage offer.
Striking mine workers will reject the new wage offer by platinum mines, says union Amcu.
An Amcu strike on the platinum mines has kicked off and is set to disrupt operations accounting for about 70% of global output of the precious metal.
The platinum spot price has increased to a three-month high pushing the JSE platinum stock index to a nine-month high amid potential supply limits.
South Africa’s economic growth will remain subdued in the medium term due to unrest in the platinum sector and a weak global economic environment.
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.
Amplats has signalled it plans to trim loss-making shafts as producers of the metal grapple with depressed prices and a rise in union militancy.
The IDC has invested in a platinum mine which hopes to create 9 000 jobs and use a unique process to make it more energy efficient.