Tens of thousands of South African gold miners are on strike after their union rejected a final offer from major mining firms. The National Union of Mineworkers says the strike, which began late Tuesday, will continue "indefinitely" until its demands are met. The union, which represents more than 80...

AS South African gold miners nationwide walked out on Tuesday, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) released a statement noting the “devastating" impact the strike will have on the economy. However, it added that this is “largely a white man's economy with no benefits for poor black...

Gold miners at South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater mines decided to continue their pay strike at a mass meeting last week in the face of legal threats South African workers at multinational supermarket chain in Mbombela oppose sackings. Strikers at one of South Africa's Shoprite supermarket stores...

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Gold Fields Ltd says a wildcat strike by 15,000 miners has stopped work in the west section of its KDC mine in the West Rand, the latest in a string of labor disputes in South Africa's mines. Gold Fields said Monday it was not clear why the miners are striking.

South African gold miners will go on strike next week after talks with the country's Chamber of Mines collapsed. Lesiba Seshoka, a spokesman for the National Union of Mineworkers, said yesterday that the strike will start on Tuesday after the Chamber of Mines, which represents mine owners, did not...

JOHANNESBURG - Tens of thousands of South African gold miners are striking for higher wages in the latest blow to a once-robust industry. The strike started Tuesday evening and the National Union of Mineworkers, which says it represents more than 80,000 miners in the gold sector...

The South African gold producers can't afford to increase wages too much. The discussions should continue on Wednesday but the difference between the demands of All in all, the possible strike of the South African gold miners doesn't have the potential to move gold and GLD prices significantly.

South Africa is bracing for a strike that is likely to cripple its gold mining industry starting from Tuesday night. The National Union of Mine workers is ca...

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South Africa's labour laws allow for wage disputes to be referred to an outside mediator. If that fails, employees can go on strike. NUM said it is demanding an increase of 8.5% across the board...

March 8 (Reuters) - South Africa's Sibanye Stillwater Ltd SSWJ.J has received a notice of strike at its local gold mining operations from two unions starting on Mar. 9, the company said on Tuesday ...

South African gold miners will go on strike next week after talks with the Chamber of Mines collapsed. The looming strike threatens to escalate South Africa's labour unrest, with thousands of workers in aviation, construction and motor industry sectors already striking over wages.

Tuesday's strike followed a mine accident at Harmony Gold's Elandrand mine in October, when 3,200 workers were trapped 2.2 kilometres underground for more than 24 hours due to a shaft elevator...

Feb 14 (Reuters) - South African mining company Sibanye-Stillwater on Monday said it will meet unions this week over a looming strike at its gold operations in the country after some workers backed...

South African miners killed during strike - Striking South African miners armed with homemade spears and pangas chant slogans near the Marikana Operators of a South African gold mine negotiated with about 15,000 striking workers Monday after they walked off the job the night before, a...

A recent accident in a gold mine in South Africa has brought attention to the growing practice of illegal mining. The legal mining operations have been on a decades-long decline but illegal miners are thriving. ... South Africa has been a destination for miners who hope to strike it rich since gold was discovered in Johannesburg in the 1880s. A ...

About 80,000 gold miners in South Africa walked out on strike on Tuesday night, raising fears of renewed violence in the crisis-hit industry and underlining the government's dwindling authority. President Jacob Zuma admitted that he could only plead with companies and unions to find a peaceful...

Some 90,000 South African gold miners are set to walk off the job, joining tens of thousands of other South African workers demanding higher pay. Last year, a similar gold and platinum strike resulted in the deaths of 44 protesters, resulting in international criticism of the government of President Jacob...

Some 80,000 gold miners in South Africa have gone on a strike to call for higher pay, but their union has significantly scaled down its demands. South Africans were shocked last year when police shot dead 34 platinum miners during an unofficial strike called by a rival union, which accused the NUM of...