-
Western Cape police commissioner Lieutenant General Arno Lamoer says reported absenteeism levels at the Maitland, Cape Town, police station are incorrect. He has told the Cape Times that staff took an average of 7.9 days' sick leave in the last year, and ...
-
A police helicopter and riot police are trying to control thousands of angry fired mineworkers at Impala Platinum's Rustenburg mine, North West police say, describing the situation as very hostile, volatile and tense. Comment was not immediately available...
-
Impala Platinum should have foreseen there would be problems and tension when it rehired around 17,000 fired workers and should have provided security, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said on Thursday. One person died in clashes and a policewoman ...
-
The government's rejection of the full scale implementation of nationalisation in favour of a mixed economy was concerning for the future of the mining industry, Solidarity said yesterday. Researcher Piet le Roux said in response to the President's state ...
-
A look at the volatile labour relations at platinum mines around Rustenburg, with particular reference to the illegal strikes and resultant dismissals at Impala Platinum and, last year, at Lonmin. It is asked whether the National Union of Mineworkers is l...
-
Police report that one person was killed last night, and a policewoman and several civilians were injured in clashes with angry miners outside Impala Platinum's Rustenburg operations. This morning about 5,000 people, believed to be part of the group of ov...
-
Employment has increased among higher-income groups in SA, while many of the country's lowest earners have lost their jobs, according to a new transformation audit by the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation (IJR). As a result, social inequality has g...
-
Wilmot James, Democratic Alliance MP, in a speech in Parliament yesterday during the State of the Nation debate, accused the SA Democratic Teacher’s Union of wilfully sacrificing schooling on the altar of material greed. He noted that President in his a...
-
The Department of Mineral Resources was confident the mining industry could meet the target of creating 140,000 jobs by 2020, i.e. 14,000 jobs a year, provided constraints such as a lack of infrastructure were met, Parliament’s mining committee was told...
-
Opposition members have welcomed President Zuma's announcement in his State of the Nation Address that government would spend more on infrastructure development, but has urged the President to focus more on developing skills, implementing labour reforms a...
-
A group of striking workers at Impala Platinum’s Rustenburg operation on Wednesday intimidated workers reporting back for duty and hurled stones at passing cars, SABC News reported. Nine people were admitted to hospital after they were assaulted. The pr...
-
AngloGold Ashanti chairperson and former SA Reserve Bank Governor and Cabinet Minister, Tito Mboweni, on Wednesday slammed the “sledgehammer” approach of the Department of Mineral Resources (DMR) to mine safety and spoke of a current tendency to “re...
-
There are tentative signs that institutional shareholders are starting to become more active on the increasingly controversial issue of executive remuneration. Yesterday, some 29% of shareholders attending the Reunert annual general meeting voted against...
-
AngloGold Ashanti reports that an employee died in a fall of ground accident at Mponeng mine, near Carletonville, on Tuesday afternoon. Stoping operations have been suspended pending an investigation.
See Business Day, print edition, page 2
...
-
A miner has died in a fall-of-rock incident at Anooraq Resources’ Bokoni platinum mine on the eastern limb of the Bushveld Complex. Anooraq said the incident took place on Tuesday, when an employee was fatally injured at the mine’s vertical shaft.
...
-
The Democratic Alliance will ask the Public Service Commission (PSC) to do a full investigation into the widespread abuse of sick leave by police officers. It says "serial absenteeism" by police officers who abused their basic right to sick leave was unde...
-
Impala Platinum said yesterday it had rehired 4,617 out of the 17,200 employees who were axed last month for participating in an illegal strike. The workers were allowed to reapply for their jobs, but there is uncertainty over whether they retain their ol...
-
Cosatu will go ahead with a planned national strike on 7 March against labour brokers after attempts to broker a deal at Nedlac failed, the union federation said on Wednesday. Spokesperson Patrick Craven said the protected strike was necessary for ...
-
SA will need its entire skills base for the government's R300bn infrastructure programme, Economic Development Minister Ebrahim Patel said on Tuesday. Asked about affirmative action, he told the Cape Town Press Club the government would make an "active at...
-
Reunert’s former CEO Nick Wentzel, who departed the firm in September 2011, was paid a staggering R18.2m in 2011, of which R12m were severance benefits. Co-executive Gerrit Oosthuizen, who resigned in October 2011, was paid R8.9m as part of his separat...
