South Africa: Underground mine occupation | Africanews
More than 2,000 workers occupy a platinum mine in South Africa for the second day in a row on Tuesday, causing concern among families as the company tries to push for an end to one of the country ...
Report on the recent South African miners' strike
Report on the recent South African miners' strike Report on the recent 6 week wildcat strike at Impala Platinum's Rustenberg operation, the biggest platinum mine in the world, including a timeline and a bit of background information. ...
Police crack down on striking South African miners | CNN
Police in South Africa used stun grenades to disperse a gathering of hundreds of people early Saturday in the Marikana area, in the latest crackdown on striking mine workers, according to police.
South African Police Crack Down On Striking Miners : NPR
The strikes have destabilized South Africa's critical mining sector. It was the first police action since officers killed 34 miners Aug. 16 in state violence that shocked the nation.
South Africa Massacre: Miners Charged over Colleagues' …
Updated: Aug. 31, 2012 at 8:10 a.m. EST. The decision late Thursday by South Africa's state prosecutors to use a notorious apartheid-era law to charge 270 striking miners with the murder of 34 of their colleagues — men who were actually shot dead by the police, as recorded by numerous television crews — marks a bizarre new low in a bloody scandal that threatens to …
4,000 miners cut off from supplies in underground standoff …
Johannesburg — More than 4,000 miners locked in a standoff with South African authorities over illegal mining were believed to be sick and increasingly weak inside an …
Sibanye-Stillwater faces strike at South Africa gold mines
South Africa's long-divided mining unions have scored a win since forging a united front against the industry's largest employer as the country's labour arbitration body has cleared them to ...
Miners leave South Africa gold mine after 3 days …
SPRINGS, South Africa — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, the union at the center of...
South Africa: Two striking miners shot dead by security …
Striking miners protest on the hill at the AngloGold Ashanti mine in Carletonville, northwest of Johannesburg, South Africa, on October 22, 2012. AngloGold Ashanti, the world's third-largest gold producer, became today the latest mining firm to issue an ultimatum to striking workers in South Africa that they must return to the mines or be ...
South Africa police slammed over deaths of Marikana miners
South Africa's police have been severely criticised over the shooting of 34 striking miners, with an inquiry into the 2012 Marikana killings calling for a further probe to ascertain the criminal ...
We Should Never Forget South Africa's Marikana Massacre
Ten years ago this month, 34 striking mine workers in South Africa were slaughtered by police on live TV. The Marikana massacre exposed the deep ills of the postapartheid status quo — and the urgent need to build working-class power in the country. Police surround fallen miners after opening fire on the strikers in Marikana, South Africa ...
South African miner describes horrors for those …
Illegal mining in South Africa is known to cause far-reaching problems for nearby communities, including violent crime and the destruction of community infrastructure.
More than 2,000 mine workers extend underground protest …
CAPE TOWN, South Africa (AP) — More than 2,000 workers remained underground for a second day Tuesday in a protest over pay and benefits at a platinum mine in …
The African Mine workers strike of 1946
The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa. Following the demise of the ICU in the early 1940s, the mine workers were the first to challenge not only their employers, but the racist policies of the segregationist state of Jan Smuts.
South Africa: Striking miners 'thought they were invincible' …
Striking workers at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine in South Africa, where 34 people were killed by police gunfire, were given "muti," or traditional medicine, for protection. ... JOHANNESBURG, South Africa — Striking mineworkers killed in last week's mass shooting by police believed they were invincible because of traditional medicine.
South Africa's Police Open Fire on Striking …
Updated: Aug. 17, 2012 at 7:40 a.m. EST. South African police opened fire on a crowd of striking miners on Thursday, killing 34 people and leaving a field strewn with bodies in a massacre that instantly revived memories of the brutality of …
Miners' Strike: South Africa 1946
Miners' Strike. South Africa 1946. Synopsis. In August 1946 the African Mine Workers Union (AMWU) in South Africa called a strike of black miners in the country's Witwatersrand gold producing region. The strike was the first widespread action taken by African workers since 1920.
South African Police Open Fire On Striking Miners, More …
Update at 7 a.m. ET, Aug. 17. Death Toll Increased: The number of men killed by police at a mine in South Africa on Thursday is now reported to be "more than 30," The Associated Press says.As the ...
Hundreds of miners leave South Africa gold mine after being …
SPRINGS, South Africa (AP) — Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground because of a union dispute left a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, mine …
What's behind South Africa's mine violence?
The 34 miners in the Lonmin mine in Marikana, South Africa, died after police opened fire on a gathering of thousands of machete-armed workers striking for higher wages.
The Marikana Massacre, the Rule of Law and South Africa's …
On 16 August 2102, 34 striking miners were killed by the South African Police Service at a platinum mine in Marikana in the north-west of South Africa. The massacre recalled the kind of violence that was supposed to have disappeared with the end of apartheid in 1994. This article examines the context in which the massacre occurred, the manner in which it was …
A history of mining in South Africa
Such events are rooted in a strike led by the African Mine Workers' Union in August 1946. Miners of the Witwatersrand were demanding higher pay: an extra 10 shillings a day. The strike went on for a week despite what South African History Online describes as "the most savage police terror". Officially, the police and army attacked the ...
Standoff in South Africa ends with 87 miners dead and anger …
Police say the death toll in a monthslong standoff between authorities and miners trapped while working illegally underground at an abandoned gold mine in South Africa has risen to at least 87.
Miners' Strike: South Africa 1922
Miners' Strike. South Africa 1922. Synopsis. In early 1922, white South African workers in the Witwatesrand gold mining region went on strike. The strike soon became a violent rebellion—sometimes known as the Rand Revolt—that pitted the white miners against the mine owners and the government.
The Marikana Massacre, the Rule of Law and South Africa …
On 16 August 2102, 34 striking miners were killed by the South African Police Service at a platinum mine in Marikana in the north-west of South Africa.
South Africa shocked by police shootings at …
Protesters gather at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa on August 17, 2012 where the day before 34 people were killed when police opened fire on striking mineworkers.
South African miners continue struggling with the companies
The incident comes as South Africa struggles to come to grips with violent mining protests, which culminated in the killing of 34 miners at a Lonmin-owned platinum mine in August. In a move that outraged protesters, the South African government charged 270 striking miners with murder over the incident, though it had been police that fired the ...
South Africa criticized for 'horrific' mining crackdown after
South Africa's government is facing criticism for its clampdown on illegal mining that cut off food and water to hundreds of miners underground, after at least 78 bodies were …
Notes from Marikana, South Africa: The Platinum Miners' Strike…
The standoff between the South African state, the multinational Lonmin Company, and striking miners at its Marikana mine, opens up questions about the global political economy, to be sure, but it also fits into a decades' long narrative about struggles for equivalence––for relative equality––in industrial South Africa and about state ...
Echoes of the past: Marikana, cheap labour and the 1946 miners strike
White miners went on strike against management's attempt at weakening the colour bar in order to facilitate the entry of cheaper black labour into skilled positions. Supported by the Communist Party of South Africa under the banner of "Unite and Fight for a White South Africa!" the rebellion was viciously crushed by the state leaving over 200 dead.