The decision late Thursday by South Africa’s state prosecutors to use a notorious apartheid-era law to charge 270 striking miners with the murder of 34 of their colleagues — men who were actually shot ...
MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Striking platinum miners at Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa accepted a hefty pay rise offer on Tuesday, ending six weeks of violent labor unrest... August 22, ...
LONDON (Reuters) - Aquarius Platinum, the world's No.4 primary platinum producer, suspended operations at a shaft of the Marikana operation in South Africa following the death of five miners, pushing ...
News cameras captured horrific images of riot police gunning down dozens of striking workers at a South African platinum mine yesterday, in a "bloodbath" that recalls some of the worst of that country ...
Bheki Cele, who was police commissioner from 2009 until he was dismissed in 2011, criticised his successor Riah Phiyega’s ...
(AP) Lonmin platinum miners celebrated a wage deal Wednesday that ended a deadly strike, but labor unrest at a different mine took a violent turn when police broke up what they called an illegal ...
A series of police massacres from the 1960s to the 1980s helped seal the fate of white minority rule in South Africa, so it’s hardly surprising that last week’s killing of 34 striking mine workers has ...
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Miners returned to work on Wednesday at world No. 3 platinum producer Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa, ending a one-day illegal stoppage, a trade unionist said. "The ...
However keynote speaker Dr Mamphela Ramphele told the second annual memorial lecture, organised by new mine owner Sibanye-Stillwater, the lessons learnt were beginning to bear fruit. "Their courage to ...
The K4 project is a tier one, low-cost, brownfield PGMs expansion project at the Marikana mine operations. The project entails the completion of a project significantly advanced by previous owner ...
Review of African Political Economy, Vol. 47, No. 163 (2020), pp. 27-44 (18 pages) Mine and worker Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) remains crucial given the historically dismal record of ...
Former Police Minister Bheki Cele has told Parliament’s Ad Hoc Committee that the Marikana massacre would never have happened had he been National Police Commissioner at the time.Cele, who returned to ...