The gold mining industry on the Rand began in the 1880's and by 1913 there were 63 mines employing about 21 000 white workers and 200 000 black workers. Gold, the international money commodity, had a fixed price. This meant there was a certain constraint with regard to the costs of production because increases could not be passed on to the …
Mining unions are threatening a joint full-blown strike at Sibanye-Stillwater after the dismissal of 213 workers for staging an underground sit in last week over an employee share ownership scheme.
An underground protest at Impala Platinum continued on Tuesday, with more than 2 000 workers still underground. The company said about 63 came up during the night. Miners say they want previously promised bonuses and pension fund payments, with some saying they had been suspended for unauthorised meetings. For more financial …
Gold miners from across the country traveled to California to strike it rich, though few really ever did. Library of Congress
Sibanye-Stillwater on Friday gave South African gold mine workers a higher wage offer, a month and a half into a strike at its gold operations in the country.
The miners' strike. Part of Humanities - History (Wales) Conflict and peace. The miners' strike 1984-1985 was an attempt by miners to stop the National Coal Board and the Prime Minister ...
The miners' strike of 1984-85 was a defining moment in the history of British coal mining and the biggest industrial dispute in post-war Britain.
The first of an estimated 200,000 black miners stopped work tonight in what could become the biggest strike over wages in South African history.
Following the discovery of gold on the Witwatersrand in 1886, the major mining companies had recruited a number of British mineworkers experienced in the coal mining industries back home. After the Anglo Boer War, this workforce was increasingly supplemented by Afrikaner miners and black labourers from the rural areas.
Remember Kirkland Lake: The Gold Miners' Strike of 1941–42 tells the story of one of the most important industrial disputes in Canadian labour history. This strike united the Canadian labour movement around the demand for collective bargaining legislation, which it won in 1944 and which remains central to our industrial relations system.
To show solidarity with the gold miners, close to 35,000 workers are expected to down tools at Sibanye's platinum group metal operations at Rustenburg and Marikana.
A policeman carries plastic buckets used for the washing of gold during a raid on illegal miners on 3 August 2022 in Krugersdorp.
A general strike was organized by white trade unions in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1922. This was in response to intensified exploitation of the miners and a decision by gold-mining industry leaders to replace many white workers with black workers.
0:00. Subscribers can listen to this article. Miners from the Gold One mine in Springs in Johannesburg, who were trapped underground, left the mine piecemeal on Monday. The workers were held hostage from Thursday evening. Melinda Stuurman.
Update: 1:55PM TODAY marks the 23rd anniversary of a strike by gold miners of the Emperor Gold Mining company. More than 400 gold miners walked off their jobs in Vatukoula on February 27, 1991 in protest against some issues. Fiji Mine Workers Union general secretary Hansy Peters said a get-together is planned for the striking […]
The Indian Mineworkers Strike in 1913 Image source. A form of resistance included to look for better jobs. After the South African War (1899-1902), thousands of African workers boycotted the gold mines because wages …
Internet data miners strike disease detection gold. Nature Medicine 18, 185 ( 2012) Cite this article. Since the rise of web search engines in the 1990s, scientists have scoured the Internet for ...
The 1984-85 miners' strike was the longest, most bitter national strike in British working class history. For 12 months miners fought an unprecedented battle to defend their jobs and communities ...
The Rand Revolt -1922. One of the biggest upsets on the Rand was the violent mineworkers' strike of 1922. Much of the news reporting dubbed it "civil war" in its latter stages. The strike lasted 84 days, it started as peaceful demonstrations, but soon turned violent when two Communist leaders tried to use the striking workers as an ...
As anticipated last week, about 80,000 South African gold miners went on strike Tuesday night after wage talks broke down, threatening to cause millions of dollars in lost output in the crisis-hit ...
Here the red forces were directed by Fisher and Spendiff, two miners' leaders followers of the Communists, and while ardent strike militants, most fervent partisans of the negro workers at the same time. The bombardment was expected to …
South African gold miners have launched their first industry-wide strike in 18 years to demand higher wages in the world's biggest bullion producer, the country's main mining union said.
In passing, the article reveals that black workers participated in the militant 1913 strike by the Witwatersrand's white mine workers.
The rand was at 10.2650 to the dollar at 0556 GMT, little changed from its close in New York on Monday. The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), which represents about two-thirds of more than 120,000 unionised gold miners in Africa's biggest economy, is set to strike from Tuesday.
Strike looms as Sibanye's gold wage talks deadlock over 'insulting' offer. Labour was dissatisfied with Sibanye's offer as it falls short of the wage deals that have been secured with other gold miners. Wage talks between labour and Sibanye-Stillwater have stalled as the parties refuse to budge.
Gascoyne, a forceful 59-year-old ex-faceworker who swears a lot, was the branch secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers throughout the strike of 1984-85 and until the pit closed. The son of a communist miner, he has kept its memory alive at the Shirebrook Miners' Welfare Social Club, founded in 1920.
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 workers' action was a response to the owners' plan to reduce wages and replace the …
Photo Courtesy of Rand Desert Museum, Randsburg, California. In the early 1980s Rand Mining Company reopened the famous Yellow Aster Mine, and many of the adjacent mines. Using the art of "Heap Leach" …
Three days after the strike ended, the economic situation for South Africans improved even more as the rand officially strengthened globally, securing an economic boost for the nation. South African Miners' Strike. Sibanye Stillwater is a precious metal/gold mining company operating in South Africa, where miners' unions are common.
The same ANC government reasoning probably also applies to the 1922 Rand Revolution (also referred to as the 1922 Miners Strike or Rand Uprising) when militant white mine workers clashed with the police and the South African military.
A strike would lead to the loss of around 28,000 ounces of gold production and 79 million rand ($12.21 million) in revenue per day, a Deutsche Securities analyst says.
The Witwatersrand has been subjected to geological exploration, mining activities, parallel industrial development and associated settlement patterns over the past century. The gold mines brought with them not only development, employment and wealth, but also the most devastating war in the history of South Africa, civil unrest, economical …
Armed with the demand for higher wages and a different system of food delivery, grievances generated by the political economy of gold mining in the 1940s, the AMWU took about 80,000 miners into a strike on August 12, 1946, and probably double the number in sympathizers. The strike lasted for five days.
In January 1922 some 22 000 white miners downed their tools and went on strike in what became known as the Rand Rebellion or the Red Revolt. Eventually martial law was proclaimed and the Smuts government sent in the defence force, which effectively crushed the general strike.
Within this country's contemporary political discussion any mention of insurrection would likely refer to last July's still unsatisfactorily understood KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng events. Besides historical enthusiasts, comparatively few South Africans will be aware that March marks the centenary of another local insurrection: the 1922 Rand …
The first quarter of 2022 marked the centenary of the great White Miners' Strike on the Rand, also referred to as the Rand Revolt, or even the Red Revolt.The causes of the Rand Revolt and its suppression by the government are well known.
By August 12th tens-of-thousands of black miners were on strike from the East to the West Rand. The state showed the utmost brutality, chasing workers down mineshafts with live ammunition and cracking down on potential sympathy strikes in the city of Johannesburg. By August 16th the state had bludgeoned 100,000 miners back to work and nine lay ...
