Grootvlei maintenance workers down tools – union

About 100 employees who were responsible for undertaking essential maintenance at Aurora Empowerment Systems’ Grootvlei mine on Monday went on strike over unpaid wages, trade union Solidarity reported. The union said that the workers were...

Labour Minister launches probe into Aurora

Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana has launched an investigation into Aurora in terms of the Unemployment Insurance Act, as no unemployment payments have been received from the company, the Freedom Front Plus said on Monday. This followed a...

SA mine deaths a national disgrace – Cosatu’s Vavi

The number of deaths in South African mines was a national disgrace, Congress of SA Trade Unions (Cosatu) general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi said on Friday. "Urgent action is needed to put an end to this carnage," Vavi told a memorial service for...

Durban steel plant reopens furnaces after fatal explosion

JSE-listed African Rainbow Minerals (ARM), the joint owner of Assmang, states that a further two furnaces at its Cato Ridge plant will have restarted in April, 2008.

Devise social plan to save miner's jobs, new Num leader urges

Interviewing new labour leader Frans Baleni was not materially dissimilar to interviewing a typical chief exec. The new 46-year-old general secretary of the 30 000-member National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) talked strategy, sustainability and...

Devise social plan to save miners' jobs, says new National Union of Mineworkers general secretary

Interviewing new labour leader Frans Baleni was not materially dissimilar tointerviewing a typical chief exec. The new 46-year-old general secretary of the 30 000-member National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) talked strategy,sustainability and...

Many battles still likely over proposed mine-sector bargaining council

There is still material disagreement between South African mineworker unions and employer organisations over the preferred manner of establishing the long-anticipated centralised bargaining council for the industry. Chamber of Mines’ Elize...

SA to compensate Lesotho ex-migrant workers

Labour Minister Membathisi Mdladlana says government will settle all outstanding pensions and compensation claims of former Lesotho migrant workers who were employed in this country's mines.

Mining industry sets target to wipe out Silicosis

The South African mining industry has set the year 2013 as the target to wipe out the occupational lung disease Silicosis.

Charter 'lekgotla' set for Tuesday

Government and the mining industry have agreed to meet on Tuesday next week in a bid to reach consensus on the proposed black empowerment mining charter.

No single target for mining empowerment

The South African government said on Wednesday it would not nationalise any part of the mining industry, after three hours of talks with global mining giant Anglo American and its diamond and gold subsidiaries.

SA ministers meet gold, diamond miners

Top South African ministers met senior mining executives yesterday to discuss government plans to give black business a bigger role in mining, government sources said.