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Predictions and Prognosis: South Africa mining and critical …

It is a well-known fact that Africa has vast mineral reserves, including platinum group metals (PGM), copper, cobalt, iron ore, chrome, manganese, gold, and lithium. …

South African Mining Industry Trends Report 2022 with

Dublin, Oct. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The . South African Mining Industry Trends Report 2022 with Impacts of Russia-Ukraine War on Energy and Industrial Commodities Markets

Law on Strikes | LexisNexis South Africa

Strikes and the Law is published by LexisNexis South Africa and written by leaders in the field, including Halton Cheadle, Darcy du Toit, Anton Steenkamp, Bradley Conradie, Tamara Cohen, Mario Jacobs and Emma Fergus. The book provides up-to-date analysis of case law, legislation and policy developments relating to the law of industrial action ...

The Impact Of Strikes For Employers And …

The dismissals of the factory staff were found to be unfair and the Labour Court ordered the mine to reinstate the 42 dismissed employees with back pay. ... The education department has announced several …

Demand for EV mineral skyrockets, leaving miners largely …

South32 and Assmang, two major manganese mining companies in South Africa, said their risk-mitigation strategies are informed by research on the potential health effects of exposure to manganese dust.

South Africa: hundreds of miners trapped …

South Africa. Africanews. The blockade of 447 miners underground has been taking place since the end of the night shift on Thursday at the Springs Gold Mine, …

Protracted strikes and statutory intervention in South …

South Africa that inhibits government's ability to intervene in protracted strikes. Based on the review and analysis of secondary data, informed propositions are formulated and presented. Methodology The conceptual article employs qualitative research strategy using secondary data analysis to arrive at informed propositions.

Mining & Mineral Processing

South Africa's mining industry is the fifth largest globally in terms of gross domestic product (GDP). The mining sector contributed R356bn or 7.3% to South Africa's GDP and accounted for 25% of the country's total export earnings. Platinum, coal and gold are the three largest mining exports. In 2018, the mining industry contributed R93bn ...

Lithium sales from South Africa on track to begin this

The first shipment of high-grade 'run-of-mine' lithium ore is being undertaken under a $5-million lithium prepayment facility to a South Africa-based subsidiary of global commodity group Traxys.

Council for Geoscience implores mining companies to share …

Many of South Africa's 53 mineral and metal types remain unexplored, particularly in the Northern Cape, despite a 130-year legacy of mining and a rising global need for critical minerals and ...

A history of mining in South Africa (ZA)

A history of mining in South Africa. M ining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15-year-old Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africa's first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867. It kickstarted what historians call the Mineral Revolution, which made few European opportunists wealthy beyond measure, and saw …

THE EFFECTS OF VIOLENT STRIKES ON THE ECONOMY …

seems to have shattered-down the aspirations of a better South Africa. South Africa recorded 114 strikes in 2013 and 88 strikes in 2014, which cost the country about R6.1 billion according to the Department of Labour.6 The impact of these strikes has been hugely felt by the mining sector, particularly the platinum industry.

News24 | strikes

Being South African is 'exhausting' sometimes, but we're not powerless: PnP's Ackerman 18 Oct 2022. Transnet strike is 'rough', but the SOE must become sustainable, says CEO Portia Derby 13 Oct 2022. Transnet workers down tools over wage dispute 06 Oct 2022. Strikes cost SA 1.6 million work days in six months - up 3 000% from 2021 ...

Diamond diggers in South Africa's deserted mines break the law

Earlier this year, South Africa's minister of Mineral Resources and Energy, Gwede Mantashe, described illegal mining as a "plague" amid reports of rampant corruption, extortion and violence linked ...

The effects of violent strikes on the economy of a …

South Africa recorded 114 strikes in 2013 and 88 strikes in 2014, which cost the country about R6.1 billion according to the Department of Labour. 6 The impact of these strikes has been hugely felt by the mining sector, particularly the platinum industry. The biggest strike took place in the platinum sector where about 70 000 mineworkers ...

Mining in SA

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Coal and industrial relations: how miners …

Disasters were common in the mining industry. Orin Blomberg/Flickr, CC BY-ND. On the eve of the Great Strikes of the early 1890s in Australia, for instance, there was evidence that mine owners, in ...

Mineral resources and energy | South African Government

The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) is mandated to ensure the transparent and efficient regulation of South Africa's mineral resources and minerals industry, and the secure and sustainable provision of energy in support of socio-economic development. Several Acts regulate the mining, minerals and energy sectors.

Mining industry in Africa

Find the most important statistics and facts on the mining industry in Africa. ... In 2021, South Africa's estimated production of platinum totaled 130 metric tons.

Discussing South Africa's Mining Strikes With Mthandazo …

Discussing South Africa's Mining Strikes With Mthandazo Ngwenya. South Africa's mining industry urgently needs to get back into full production given the sector's …

Another sit-in strike at Gold One as company …

About 447 miners at Gold One Modder East mine, Springs, have not resurfaced since Thursday night's shift in an alleged sit-in protest against dismissals. Ziyaad Hassam, head of legal at Gold One ...

Mining and Minerals in South Africa | The Oxford Handbook of the South

Although the mining value chain only accounted for around 13% of the GDP and 6% of employment in 2020, it remained a central link between the South African economy and international markets. As a result, it had an outsized impact on the production structure, income distribution, infrastructure and legal frameworks.

1912: "The Great Unrest"

The ship in the background is the Titanic. / Image: Wikimedia Commons. The Great Unrest is the term used by historians to describe the period a 100 years ago when Britain saw many industrial conflicts such …

The Dystopian Underworld of South Africa's Illegal Gold Mines

When the country's mining industry collapsed, a criminal economy grew in its place, with thousands of men climbing into some of the deepest shafts in the world, searching for leftover gold. By ...

South Africa: Lessons to Be Learned From Strikes

Business Day (Johannesburg) Johannesburg — Negotiations between employers and unions need not be quite so destructive. The recent wave of strikes that engulfed SA's labour market for nearly ...

South Africa hit by investment strike, key mining employer says

South Africa hit by investment strike, key mining employer says - MINING. Bloomberg News | February 7, 2023 | 4:47 am Intelligence Top …

MASSIVE strike action to go ahead next week in South Africa…

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Legislative protection of the right to Strike and Lockout

The right to strike is clearly protected in the South African Constitution. Legislative protection of the right to strike and recourse to a lockout means that employees partaking in that action will be protected against dismissal. The Constitution does not give employers the right to lockout employees, however, the LRA provides in section 64 (1 ...

Report on the recent South African miners' strike

The wildcat strike at Rustenberg, the biggest platinum mine in the world, has ended. Production resumed Monday the 5th. The miners have gained nothing besides …

Weekly data: What do strikes mean for inflation?

Until a few months ago, however, the Phillips Curve appeared to be on its deathbed. Since the 1990s, inflation has borne strikingly little relationship to unemployment. This puzzle became most pronounced in the decade following the global financial crisis, when dizzyingly low unemployment was combined with continually below-target inflation.