Occupational respiratory diseases in the South African ...
Methods: Mine workers for the three sub-studies were identified from a mine worker autopsy database at the National Institute for Occupational Health. Results: From 1975 to 2007, the proportions of white and black gold mine workers with silicosis increased from 18 to 22% and from 3 to 32% respectively. Cases of diamond and platinum mine workers ...
Diamond Mining in Africa | Child Labor | Conflict Diamonds
In some areas of Africa, children make up more than a small part of the workforce. One survey of diamond miners in the Lunda Norte province of Angola found that 46% of miners were between the ages of 5 and 16. For children trapped in the diamond mines, life is full of hardship. Children work long days, often six or seven days a week.
Harmony Gold worker killed in mine near Soweto | News24
A Harmony Gold mine employee was killed on Sunday afternoon following a shaft-related incident at its Doornkop mine near Soweto. Harmony Gold CEO Peter Steenkamp, in a statement, …
The African Mine workers strike of 1946 | South African ...
Despite this, there were 60 strikes by African workers in the first two years after 145 was introduced. In January 1943 the measure was used against mineworkers on strike at Langlaagte Estate Gold Mine. …
Swazi migrant workers and the Witwatersrand gold mines ...
Swazi migrant workers and the Witwatersrand gold mines 1886–1920. At the core of southern Africa's industrial revolution were the gold mines of the Witwatersrand. The insatiable needs of the gold mining industry for cheap, unskilled black labour and the struggles of African …
Mining industry of South Africa - Wikipedia
In particular, revenue from gold exports provided sufficient capital to purchase much-needed machinery and petroleum products to support an expanding manufacturing base. As of 2007, the South African mining industry employs 493,000 workers. The industry represents 18% of South Africa's $588 billion USD Gross Domestic Product.
A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa
The number of black workers in the mines actually rose in each of the Depression years and reached new peaks from 1932 to 1940 (e and f, Figure 1). White labour, too, rose by the year. The demand for gold at its then standard price of £4 4s was 'infinite'2. By 1932 South Africa and its highly cost-sensitive gold mining industry were
A story of South Africa: Mining, Migration, Misery
And the mines also recruited workers by the hundreds of thousands from countries throughout Southern Africa. The mining industry, of course, used this …
Illegal mining in Africa - Mining Africa
The Chamber of Mines of South Africa reports that illegal mining in Africa in South Africa alone is an industry worth around ZAR6 billion annually, and that many illegal miners are …
Gold mines settle workers' claims in class action - Moneyweb
The Gauteng division of the High Court this week approved a settlement in SA's first class action in which a group of workers and former workers in gold mines …
Workers Protest Unpaid Wages And Retrenchments At South ...
Workers protest unpaid wages and retrenchments at South African gold mines. The workers, who include members of IndustriALL Global Union affiliates the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, have been picketing since April for the payment of wages and for the retrenchments to be stopped.
Migrancy, masculine identities and AIDS: The psychosocial ...
One 25-year-old man said it was inevitable that if he stayed on the mines *The incidence of tuberculosis on South African gold mines increased from 620 per 100,000 workers per year in 1988 to 1070 per 100,000 workers per year in 1992 (Packard and Coetzee, 1995). tDunbar Moodie (1988, 1994) comments that an aggressive and macho masculinity forms ...
Mining: a brief history | Statistics South Africa
Mining's contribution to total economic production climbed in the 1970s to peak at 21% in 1980 1. Contributing to the upward surge in 1980 was a relatively high gold price. In other words, for every R100 that the South African economy produced that year, R21 was due to mining…
Privileging the Machines: American Engineers, Indentured ...
Industrial engineers made new machinery and industrial techniques the measure of human effort. The plight of workers in South Africa's deep-level gold mines in the era following the Anglo-Boer War of 1899–1902 provides a powerful example of just how lethal the new benchmarks of human effort could be.
Gold Mining Jobs - October 2021 | Indeed.com South Africa
Gold Mining jobs now available. Fitter, Metallurgist, Facilitator and more on Indeed.com
Narrative - Gumboot Dancing
Gumboot dancing comes from South Africa workers who worked in the gold mines during the migrant labor system and oppressive Apartheid Pass Laws. During this time, workers were separated from their families and forced to work in harsh conditions (Gumboots: Rhythm is a Language ). The gold mines they worked in were completely dark and flooded.
Mineworkers Provident Fund - MWPF
The Fund is open for membership to all workers in the Mining industry whose employers are participating employers in the Mineworkers Provident Fund, workers of other members of the Chamber of Mines in South Africa and workers of other employers whose participation in the Fund has been approved by the Trustees, may also join. Joining members ...
Central African Gold enlists cleantech firms - Mining Magazine
1 3. 4. Vancouver-based Central African Gold said it has enlisted two firms to help it design and implement a carbon credit and clean energy revenue streams. Central African Gold is working with EcoMetrix Africa, a carbon financing firm, and Inerjys Ventures, a cleantech investment firm, to assess these streams' economic and technical features ...
Miner Salary in South Africa | PayScale
The average salary for a Miner in South Africa is R286,677. Visit PayScale to research miner salaries by city, experience, skill, employer and more.
Illegal mining in Africa - Mining Africa
The Chamber of Mines of South Africa reports that illegal mining in Africa in South Africa alone is an industry worth around ZAR6 billion annually, and that many illegal miners are leaving their jobs to earn more to support their families working underground. For many of the illegal miners it is not only about earning more money, it is about ...
Mandela and Zuma gold mine 'exploiting workers' - BBC News
A South African gold mining company owned by members of the Mandela and Zuma families is accused of exploiting its political connections to avoid punishment over its abuse of workers…
'Dying for gold': the effects of mineral mining on HIV ...
Workers in South Africa's gold mining industry have among the highest incidences of tuberculosis in the world, of between 3000 and 7000 cases per 100,000 population per year, compared with 981 per 100,000 population in South Africa overall and a global incidence of 128 per 100,000 population per year .
Gold - Minerals Council South Africa
Gold sales increased by 3.7% at R72.6 billion in 2019 (R70 billion in 2018) Gold production decreased to 101.3 tonnes in 2019 (117 tonnes in 2018) At the current gold price more than half of the South African gold mining industry is marginal; South African gold only accounts for 4.2% of global gold production
Central African Gold enlists cleantech firms - Mining Magazine
1 3. 4. Vancouver-based Central African Gold said it has enlisted two firms to help it design and implement a carbon credit and clean energy revenue streams. Central African Gold is working with EcoMetrix Africa…
Thousands of children work in African gold mines - The New ...
The spike in gold prices over the past seven years has lured increasing numbers of poor people, including child recruits, to bush mines. The United Nations labor agency estimates there are …
The centrality of labor time in South African gold mining ...
inated the gold and other mines, are replaced with South African labor. Around 170 000 Around 170 000 Mozambican and Malawian migrant mineworkers were withdrawn from the mines, taking
Workers protest unpaid wages and retrenchments at …
Workers protest unpaid wages and retrenchments at South African gold mines. 16 July, 2020 18 picketing workers were arrested in Orkney on 13 July for protesting non-payment of wages and retrenchments at Kopanang and Tau Lekoa gold mines, as well as West Gold …
Deeper gets deadly for workers in aging South Africa gold ...
Most fatalities occur in South Africa's gold mines, which are the deepest on Earth. After the precious metal was discovered in 1886, the country quickly became the biggest producer until 2007.
History of mining in South Africa: The key events ...
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. The paper also notes that as mineral reserves run low, miners demand better working conditions, and itinerant workers …
Class Struggle and Migrant Labor in South African …
African economy and new discoveries of gold prompted an expansion in the demand for labor, the use of foreign labor in the mines increased substantially. In the early 1960s there was a slight drop in the use of foreign workers as the
