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The strike was disastrous, and workers will not recover from the five months lost, Nzimande said. This infographic represents a timeline of strikerelated events in South Africas platinum belt, from the tragic events at Marikana in 2012 to the end of the most recent wagerelated strike in 2014.
image caption Mining has been the driving force behind South Africa''s economic development 1879 British defeat the Zulus in Natal. 188081 Boers rebel against the British, sparking the first
Expelled ANCYL leader Julius Malema, calls for a quot;mining revolutionquot; in South Africa. 30 August, Authorities charge the 270 arrested workers with the murder of their colleagues shot on 16 August. 3 September, Court withdraws murder charges against the 270 people detained in the aftermath of the massacre and the first batch of workers is released from custody.
Miners'' Strike. South Africa 1922. Synopsis. In early 1922, white South African workers in the Witwatesrand gold mining region went on strike. The strike soon became a violent rebellionsometimes known as the Rand Revoltthat pitted the white miners against the mine owners and the government.
Make educational timelines or create a timeline for your company website. How to make a In 1497 a portuguese explorer named Vasco da Gama landed on the Natal Coast of South Africa. There were two expedtions from 1497 until 1502 He was sentenced for leading workers to strike illegally and also illegally leaving the country
Strikes. The New Year marked a strike on the collieries of the Transvaal. Strikes soon spread to the gold mines of the Reef, especially those in the East Rand, when electrical power workers and those in engineering and foundry occupations followed suit. By January 10, stoppage of work in mining and allied trades was complete.
African mineworkers were beginning to realise their collective power, and went on strike at Dutoitspan, Voorspoed and Village Deep mines in January 1911. But they were brutally forced back to work by police and white miners. Many were jailed under the Masters and Servants Act.
The South African mining industry shed 20,000 jobs in the 12 months leading to June 2013, and that trend was set to continue due to low margins, cost pressures and volatile commodity prices. Additionally, labour costs in the mining sector account for 45% to 50% of total cost, while the global average was 30 to 40% of total cost, with employee efficiency 10 times higher.
M M ining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15yearold Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africas first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867. It kickstarted what historians call the Mineral Revolution, which made few European opportunists wealthy beyond measure, and saw hundreds of thousands of men leaving their homes to become fulltime mineworkers.
Army quells miners'' strike, killing 214 1941 African workers formed the African Mine Workers Union 1943 In order to stave off the growing unrest among the African mine workers, the regime appointed a Commission of Enquiry 1946 They called a general strike. Nine men were killed, and seventy men were dismissed. The union was subsequently banned.
The sector also began to struggle following generations of reliance on migrant labour, which was influenced by old racial divisions. The Journal of the South African Institute of Mining and Metallurgy reported that the number of gold miners employed in cheap black labour jumped from 14,000 in 1890 to 534,000 in 1986.
#0183;#32;Mining, especially gold, is one of South Africa''s major export earners. Violence and intimidation. Army medical staff have already been brought in to provide care in some hospitals to try and cover what analysts say is one of the biggest strikes in the country''s history.
South African Timeline: 1652 1999. 1652: Mining, industrial and financial companies continue to bolster economic growth well into the late 1970s. A strike by black railway workers leads to the worst violence in South Africa since the government declared a national state of emergency in 1986.
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