This qualitative social work study explored the experiences and challenges of women residing in the Driekop mining community of Limpopo province, South Africa. The findings revealed that women experience both the benefits and challenges associated with these mining operations.
Workers worked under exploitative conditions as the death rate of workers in 1903 was eighty per thousand and Black workers were frequently assaulted by whites [12]. It was not only South Africans who worked as cheap labour in the mines but also African men from other neighbouring countries such as Mozambique, Swaziland, and Botswana.
Independent miners filter dirt and soil as they search for minerals following the legalisation of mining in limited areas on June 5, 2018, in Kimberley, Northern Cape, South Africa.
Progress has been patchy in boosting living conditions for the nearly 200,000 gold miners in South Africa, the world's biggest producer of gold and platinum.
Poor living conditions are a consequence of the history of the South African mining industry (SAMI), despite legislation having been implemented to attempt to address this …
This paper describes the living conditions of mine workers from eight mines in South Africa in 2014, and assesses changes made over the previous decade.
Miners continually complain about poor living conditions and it is not hard to understand why. "When the weather isn't good, we have a difficult time here," Mziwenkosi Mthenjwa, a miner ...
Development Southern Africa, 2019, vol. 36, issue 3, 265-282. Abstract: Poor living conditions are a consequence of the history of the South African mining industry …
This paper describes the living conditions of mine workers from eight mines in South Africa in 2014, and assesses changes made over the previous decade. Qualitative and …
Before and now: the contrast in miners' living conditions. Crammed into tiny rooms in same- hostels, away from their partners or families and without proper access to water, electricity or sanitation, South African miners used to live in appalling conditions. Today, the situation of miners at Impala Platinum in Rustenburg has …
12. Review of the housing and living conditions standard for the South African mining and minerals industry
ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper comprising a case study illustrating the working conditions of migrant worker miners in gold mines of South Africa r - analyses and comments on restrictions on black labour mobility and trade union rights, discriminatory labour legislation, views of wiehahn and riekert commissions, etc., Covers recruitment …
The life of living in a home so far away from home is the story of over a century of migrant, mostly black, labourers who the mines have been recruiting from across the region since the first big discoveries of gold in the former Transvaal in 1896. They would pick up much of the cheap, unskilled, often illiterate labour from within South Africa, including from the …
This paper describes the living conditions of mine workers from eight mines in South Africa in 2014, and assesses changes made over the previous decade. Qualitative and …
Mine workers in South Africa face challenges relating to poor health and safety, including fatigue risks, and poor socioeconomic and living conditions. Fatigue results in impaired mental and physical performance. The aim …
T South Africa, a top mineral producer, its mining industry plays a significant role in a country' employment creation and gross domestic products (GDP), [1]. South Africa is one of the emerging markets in Africa and is rated the 10th largest stock market in the world and one of the wealthy and economically developed in the African continent. The mining …
This paper describes the living conditions of mine workers from eight mines in South Africa in 2014, and assesses changes made over the previous decade.
The closure of several mines in South Africa and production cuts could have a detrimental impact on the health of miners who rely on in-house HIV and TB treatment programmes.
Poor living conditions are a consequence of the history of the South African mining industry (SAMI), despite legislation having been implemented to attempt to address this challenge. This paper describes the living conditions of mine workers from eight mines in South Africa in 2014, and assesses changes made over the previous …
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.
Poor living conditions are a consequence of the history of the South African mining industry (SAMI), despite legislation having been implemented to attempt to address this challenge. This paper describes the living conditions of mine workers from eight mines in South Africa in 2014, and assesses changes made over the previous decade.
In a policy document released in March, South Africa's Department of Mineral Resources and Energy announced its intention to create a new police unit dedicated to combating illegal mining.
The 2022 safety performance bears testimony to the hard work and dedication of all stakeholders in the mining industry towards ensuring the safest possible working conditions in South Africa's mines to achieve zero harm.
South African miners mark 10th anniversary of killings. Mine workers sing during the commemoration ceremonies in Marikana, South Africa, Tuesday, Aug. 16, 2022. A somber gathering of about …
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 …
Miners at Marikana, a mining area where British platinum mining giant Lonmin Plc had been operating, embarked on a strike over pay and poor living conditions, at the mine after the company failed to improve the workers' living conditions in line with the Social Labour Plans agreed with the government, in clear breach of its legal …
Andrew Cloete, a diamond miner and activist for mining rights, photographed in his shack in a squatter camp at the Nuttabooi mine in Namaqualand, South Africa. The government considers the ...
This article examines the living conditions of mine workers in South Africa, based on a survey of eight mines. It explores the factors that affect their well-being and the challenges they face.
Download. South Africa's Illegal Miners Risk Everything for Gold. Illegal mining in South Africa is among the most lucrative on the continent, pushing miners to risk health and safety in mostly ...
The compound system that was to become a striking feature of most mining enterprises in Southern and Central Africa was first introduced in the diamond mines at Kimberley. In the period of open mining (1871–1884), Africans lived in open compounds, which gave them the freedom to spend their leisure time where they pleased. In the …
In South Africa recycling or reworking of gold bearing ore in abandoned commercial mines is a growing practice. The extraction of residual gold ore from the ruins of capital-intensive enterprises is carried out informally and, according to the state, illegally.
South Africa, known for its rich mineral resources, has a long and fascinating history of diamond mining. The discovery of diamonds in the late 19th century marked a turning point in the country's economic and social development. It was a time when fortunes were made and lost, and the diamond industry became a major force …
The threat posed by COVID-19 on mines is considerable. The main reasons are cramped working conditions underground, transportation in packed cages, and a high incidence of other …
Mine workers in South Africa face challenges relating to poor health and safety, including fatigue risks, and poor socioeconomic and living conditions. Fatigue results in impaired mental and physical performance. The aim of this study was to assess contributors to fatigue of mine workers in South Africa.
Journal article Living Conditions of Mine Workers from Eight Mines in South Africa
