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The Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) is one of the most powerful of Namibia's trade unions. It plays a leading public role in the Namibian political space and is an ally of the ruling South West Africa People's Organization (SWAPO) government. [1] The MUN was established in 1986.
Union Membership Established [2] [5] Metal and Allied Namibia Workers Union (MANWU) 8,000: 1987 Mineworkers Union of Namibia (MUN) 8,000: 1986 Namibia Financial Institutions Union (NAFINU) 4,500: Namibia Food and Allied Workers Union (NAFAU) 12,000: 1986 Namibia National Teachers Union (NANTU) 16,000: 1989 Namibia Public Workers Union (NAPWU ...
Shaetonhodi worked for the Consolidated Diamond Mines, the Namibian subsidiary of De Beers, in the 1980s and became the first president of the Mineworkers Union of Namibia from 1986 to 1995. He lived and worked in the southern town of Oranjemund, where he was an activist with SWAPO during the Namibian War of Independence. He was detained ...
The Mine Workers' Union or Mineworkers' Union is the name of: Andhra Pradesh Mica Mine Workers Union, current trade union in India; Canadian Mineworkers Union, former trade union; Ghana Mine Workers' Union, current trade union; Mine Workers' Union of Canada, former trade union; Mineworkers Union of Namibia, current trade union
Mineworkers Union of Namibia; Ministry of Mines and Energy (Namibia) N. 1971–72 Namibian contract workers strike; Namibian Institute of Mining and Technology;
Map of Namibia featuring ǁKaras Region. The 2008 Skorpion Zinc strike was a worker's strike against the ownership of the Skorpion Zinc mine near the southern Namibian town of Rosh Pinah in ǁKaras Region. Skorpion Zinc is the largest zinc mine in Africa and the eighth largest in the world. [1]
During this period, Namibia existed under apartheid as a subjugated colonial state of South Africa. [9] Apartheid began in 1948 [11] under British control in the Union of South Africa. By the mid-1960s, about 45 to 50 percent of the Black labour force was contract migrant labour from the northern Namibia colonial reserves. [9]
In 1840, coal was discovered in the town of Spadra, in Johnson County, Arkansas, [1] with coal mining operations beginning that same year. [2] Initially, mining was primarily for local use in blacksmithing, but the construction of the Little Rock and Fort Smith Railroad in the 1870s opened the region up for more commercial mining activity, primarily in the counties of Franklin, Johnson, and ...