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(Reuters) -South African miners are losing 815 million rand ($44 million) in export revenue per day due to an ongoing strike at state-owned logistics firm Transnet which has hit commodity exports ...
Hundreds of miners who spent three days underground as part of a union dispute were leaving a gold mine in South Africa on Wednesday, the union at the center of the standoff said. More than 550 ...
The GDP of South Africa contracted in the first quarter of 2014, pulled down by the steepest drop in mining production (25% of which 19% was directly attributable to the strike) in 50 years. [1] [6] It was the first contraction since 2009. [8] Fitch Ratings downgraded its outlook on South Africa to "negative" from "stable". [1]
People watch as Senzo Mchunu, South African police minister (not pictured), inspects outside the mineshaft where it is estimated that hundreds of illegal miners are believed to be hiding ...
The South Africa miners strike was a one-day strike by the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa over working conditions and safety in the country's mining industry. It was the first ever industry-wide miners ' strike in South African history .
At least 31 people are suspected to have died in a methane gas explosion at a disused gold mine in South Africa around the third week of May in 2023. [3] [2] [4] [5] [6]The Department of Mineral Resources and Energy (DMRE) reported late on 22 June 2023 that the miners had died in a mining shaft at the abandoned Virginia mine in Welkom, Free State.
A group of miners from an unregistered, rival union are holding hundreds of their colleagues underground for a second day at a gold mine in South Africa over a union dispute, police and mine ...
Real del Monte silver miners' strike of 1766: Kingdom of Spain Hidalgo: 1766 South Africa miners' strike of 2007: South Africa Nationwide 2007 South Wales miners' strike (1910) [citation needed] Wales South Wales: 1910 United Mine Workers coal strike of 1919: United States Nationwide 1919 United Mine Workers of America