Graphic images from a platinum mine where South African police opened fire on striking miners carrying machetes and sticks. Courtesy of eNews Channel Africa The authorities have not released information about the number of people killed or wounded on Thursday or commented on reports that the miners, using stolen guns, fired at the …

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 ...

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), said on Wednesday that 107 miners "have come back to the surface" at the Gold One mine, east of Johannesburg. Keep reading list of 4 items list 1 of 4

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South African police shot dead 34 striking workers at platinum mine last week, setting off a wave of protests. In what has been described as "South Africa's first post-apartheid massacre ...

It is alleged that 500 miners have been detained underground. Gold One has succeeded in interdicting a strike in which more than 500 workers are being held "hostage" at its mine in Springs, allegedly by members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). The interdict, which the Labour Court granted against …

The 270,000-member mineworkers' union, which called the one-day action, said it was the first industry-wide strike to hit the mining sector in the country's history. South Africa is a leading ...

While employers and some of the public are tired of the miner's strike in South Africa, miners cannot survive on the current wages. News; Culture (6) History (9) Women (7) Business; Videos;

Times Staff Writer. JOHANNESBURG, South Africa —. More than 200,000 black miners went on strike at 46 of South Africa's gold and coal mines Sunday night to support their demands for a 30% pay ...

The move by the company, Anglo American Platinum, is likely to heighten tensions in South Africa amid a wave of sometimes violent and illegal strikes by workers at platinum, gold and iron ore ...

Mine workers sit on a hill during the commemoration ceremonies in Marikana, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. A somber gathering of about 5,000 people marked the 10th anniversary of what has become known as the Marikana massacre, when police opened fire on striking miners, killing 34 in 2012. (AP Photo/Themba …

South Africa's justice minister has demanded an explanation as to why 270 platinum miners were charged with the murder of 34 colleagues. ... between striking miners and mining company Lonmin ...

In her book Marikana: Voices from South Africa's Mining Massacre, Kate Alexander records (p. 25) that the striking miners. wanted their employer, Lonmin, to listen to their case for a decent ...

File: South Africa's Matthew Breetzke walks back to the pavilion after his dismissal during the third T20 cricket match between South Africa and India at the Wanderers Stadium in Johannesburg on ...

Introduction: Background to the Strike. The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the various groups in the four former colonies. The union was a victory for the British – especially for the 'uitlanders' (foreigners) and mining magnates – who wanted to unite the country; but it was a defeat …

I had just turned nine years old when, on Aug. 16, 2012, the South African police shot dead 34 striking mine workers in what we now call the Marikana Massacre. Disconcertingly, it was also the time during which I began to learn about the South Africa that had come before 1994 and before me — of "net blankes" ...

Rustenburg in North West Province is a tumultuous area for Ramaphosa and South Africa's ruling African National Congress party. Many union members continue to blame them for the Marikana massacre, where 34 miners were shot dead by police during a strike at the Lonmin mine in 2012, when Ramaphosa was a non-executive director of …

JOHANNESBURG — The failure of South Africa's national police force to control its officers or come up with a plan to handle a surge of angry protesters led to the killing of 34 striking miners ...

04:48 - Source: CNN. Johannesburg, South Africa CNN —. Murder charges against hundreds of South African miners will be dropped pending further investigation, the country's top prosecutor ...

South Africa's two biggest mineworkers' unions said on Tuesday that workers at Sibanye Stillwater's platinum operations plan to go on strike to show their support for gold miners locked in a wage ...

South Africa's Lonmin Marikana mine clashes killed 34. Police defend their actions in miner clashes. Thirty-four people were killed after police opened fire on striking miners at a South African ...

JOHANNESBURG, April 22 (Reuters) - Mining company Sibanye-Stillwater (SSWJ.J) on Friday gave South African gold mine workers a higher wage offer, a month and a half into a strike at its gold ...

Striking miners fired on in South Africa. 03:58 - Source: CNN. CNN —. Violence between competing unions at South Africa's mines is threatening to weaken Africa's largest economy . On ...

Arcane Roman-Dutch law used in South Africa to turn the blame on 270 miners after police shoot 34 of them dead. ... That afternoon, striking miners armed with clubs, machetes and at least one gun ...

South African Police officers killed more than 30 striking workers during a confrontation at a mine owned by Lonmin PLC Thursday. The shooting has been called one of the worst in the country since ...

Thirty-four people were killed after police opened fire on striking miners at a South African mine on Thursday, the police chief has said. Riah Phiyega said police had been forced to shoot after ...

The world's biggest producer of platinum has fired roughly 12,000 striking workers in South Africa, the latest salvo in the labor battles gripping the country's mining industry.

Freedom Press. Mineworkers of the Marikana diamond mine in South Africa are continuing their strike. Their perseverence comes after violent police efforts to suppress the strike, efforts culminating in a horrendous bloodbath on 16 August, when police machinegunned protesting miners, killing 34 and arresting at least 250 of them.

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Published: July 3, 2015 12:27am EDT. The Farlam Commission found that the police inappropriately chose to forcibly break the strike at Marikana, resulting in the deaths of 34 miners. Reuters ...