SA mines hit by national labour strike

The national stayaway organised by the Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu), ending a month-long protest action campaign against the rising cost of living and higher electricity tariffs, on Wednesday led to high absenteeism rates at a...

Gold Fields to lay off workers, union cites safety

Gold Fields said on Monday it would lay off workers from an older section of a South African mine, but a union said more workers than had been targeted for the exercise had asked to leave on safety concerns. Gold Fields, the world's number-four...

SA mine strike 'counterproductive', says Chamber

South Africa's Chamber of Mines (CoM) was "disappointed" with the strike that curbed mining production in the country on Wednesday, saying that the action was "counterproductive", senior executive Frans Barker told Mining Weekly Online. He said...

Daily podcast – July 17, 2008

In today's podcast: internet penetration in South Africa is lagging far behind telephone penetration, SAA achieves a R2-billion turnaround in its 2007/08 financial year, and the one-day strike organised by Cosatu has affected mines in the Free...

Cosatu strike hits SA gold, coal mines

The one-day strike organised by the Congress of Trade Unions of South Africa (Cosatu), was affecting mines in the Free State and Mpumalanga provinces, as workers downed tools in protest to rising food and energy prices. The industrial action...

Union mulls one-day safety strike at Gold Fields’ SA mines

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) on Monday confirmed that the union was planning to hold a one-day safety strike at gold producer Gold Fields' four local operations, in light of the high number of deaths that occurred at the miner's...

Gold Fields faces mounting mine deaths

Gold Fields has suffered about a quarter of South Africa's 85 mine fatalities so far this year, a senior official said. He could not establish whether Gold Fields had the worst record among its peers. Deaths in South African mines fell 22 percent...