Al Jazeera English
| Oct 5, 2012
Anglo American Platinum, the world's largest platinum producer, has sacked up to 12,000 miners in South Africa for staging what the company said is an unlawful strike. The industrial action has also spread to other mining industries with over 75,0...
eNews Channel Africa
| Sep 19, 2012
While miners celebrated a 22 percent wage increase and the end of their labor dispute at Marikana, Lonmin Platinum Mine announced it is shutting down its K4 shaft in Rustenburg. The closure will leave more than 1,000 miners unemployed. Lonmin says...
CNN
| Sep 14, 2012
Amid a leadership vacuum in South Africa, critics claim the miners' strike is being hijacked. Many of the protestors arrested following the fatal shooting by police at Marikana - and even some of the dead - were not employees of Lonmin. Nkepile Ma...
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 11, 2012
Thousands of people have descended upon Marikana in a display of solidarity with the striking miners, all saying the workers' pay rise demand is "non-negotiable". But without a return to work, mediators, unions, and mine bosses say they will walk...
Al Jazeera English
| Sep 6, 2012
Could growing frustration in South Africa over the country's economic disparities have major repercussions for the ruling ANC? As unrest and strikes spread, Shiulie Ghosh speaks to guests Anthea Jeffery, Adam Habib, and Tony Dykes.
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 31, 2012
South African authorities have used a law last used in the apartheid era to bring murder charges against 270 miners involved in unrest at the Marikana mine earlier this month.
The 270 workers would be tried under the "common purpose" doctrine bec...
Associated Press
| Aug 29, 2012
Some of the South African miners who were arrested at the same protest where police opened fire and killed 34 of their colleagues appeared in court near Pretoria on Wednesday. Friends and relatives demonstrated outside of the courthouse claiming t...
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 27, 2012
Hundreds of defiant miners have regrouped for a protest near the spot where South African police killed 34 of their colleagues, as platinum giant Lonmin said less than a quarter of employees had shown up for work. Meanwhile, the ANC national exec...
Al Jazeera English
| Aug 18, 2012
Striking mine workers have rallied in South Africa, where police shot and killed 34 of their colleagues three days ago. Officers say they acted in self defense. But others say it was a massacre of the kind not seen since the end of Apartheid ...
Associated Press
| Aug 17, 2012
An official said South African police killed 34 striking miners when they opened fire on a charging mob armed with machetes and sticks. As frantic relatives searched for their loved ones a day after Thursday's dramatic shooting incident, a nationa...
— May 15 at 02:06 pm
...Marikana mine 120km northwest of Johannesburg, several dozen strikers brandishing sticks and branches marched to a dusty football pitch on Wedne...
— May 14 at 10:13 am
...guidance - raising hopes of a recovery just as the South African sector prepares for months of wage negotiations. But acting chief executive Sim...
Lonmin plc, formerly the mining division of Lonrho plc, is a producer of platinum group metals operating in the Bushveld Complex of South Africa. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Its registered office is in London, and its operational headquarters are in Johannesburg, South Africa.
Lonmin rose to international attention following the Marikana miners' strike in August, 2012, in which over 100 striking Lonmin employees were shot by South African Police Service officers.
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