Channel 4 News
| Mar 3, 2013
In the last year, South Africa's lucrative mining industry has been hit heavily by strikes, job cuts and violent protests. Many still seek to support themselves through mining, but the only viable option they have are mines operating illegally, wi...
France 24
| Dec 18, 2012
South African President Jacob Zuma scored a thumping victory in an ANC leadership contest on Tuesday with 2,986 out of 3, 977 party member votes, making him the odds-on favourite to retain the presidency after general elections in 2014. This come...
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...
City Press Online
| Sep 18, 2012
Controversial South African politician Julius Malema was barred from addressing miners at Marikana on Monday, and escorted from the rally by police amid angry and chaotic scenes.
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 7, 2012
Striking miners in South Africa are still refusing to go back to work. The almost month-long stoppage at a platinum mine in Marikana is also hurting the country's President Jacob Zuma politically. His party presidency will be challenged later ...
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...
— May 20 at 10:08 am
...Africa's mining union on Sunday said it will demand pay increases of up to 60 per cent for workers in the gold and coal mining sectors, mounting...
Mining in South Africa has been the main driving force behind the history and development of Africa's most advanced and richest economy. Large scale and profitable mining started with the discovery of a diamond on the banks of the Orange River in 1867 by Erasmus Jacobs and the subsequent discovery and exploitation of the Kimberley pipes a few years later. Gold rushes to Pilgrim's Rest and Barberton were precursors to the biggest discovery of all, the Main Reef/Main Reef Leader on Gerhardus Oosthuizen's farm Langlaagte, Portion C, in 1886, the Witwatersrand Gold Rush and the subsequent rapid development of the gold field there, the biggest of them all. Diamond and gold production may now be well down from their peaks, though South Africa is still no. 2 in gold but South Africa remains a cornucopia of mineral riches. It is the world's largest producer of chrome, manganese, platinum, vanadium and vermiculite. It is the second largest producer of ilmenite, palladium, rutile and zirconium. It is also the world's third largest coal exporter.
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