Africa - International Miners Coordination

A trade union colleague from Morocco sent the following report

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 24 November 2025 09:43; Hits: 22

Good evening, comrades, I hope you are all well and in good health.
I would like to inform you that since 27 September 2025, there have been a series of protests in Morocco led by Generation Z 212, i.e. young people who were born in a time of crisis and upheaval. They have taken to the streets of major cities such as Rabat, Casablanca, Fez, Tangier, Marrakesh, Agadir... as well as marginalised cities in the interior of the country such as Oujda and Jerada.

We have received the following report from Morocco:

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Wednesday, 22 October 2025 18:39; Hits: 113

Ambaj village, Bouanane municipality – Figuig province: martyrs of daily bread Dear comrades
It is with deep sadness that we learned of a tragic accident that occurred on Sunday, 19 October 2025, in one of the artisanal barite mines located in the Boussalem area, part of the mining village of Ambaj, Bouanane commune, Figuig province, in the Oriental region.

Greeting from Kumpel for AUF to MACUA

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Sunday, 09 February 2025 10:55; Hits: 417

To MACUA. Dear friends, dear brothers and sisters, We send you warm and fraternal greetings for your protest march on 5 February and all further actions until those responsible in the government and police are punished for the murder of over 100 miners and justice is done to the miners and their families. Unfortunately, we cannot be there in person, but we are with you.

Response from Cristopher Rutledge of MACUA

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Sunday, 09 February 2025 10:36; Hits: 401

Dear Comrade Andreas Tadysiak. On behalf of MACUA and the mining-affected communities of Stilfontein, we extend our heartfelt appreciation for your unwavering solidarity and support. Your words resonate deeply with our struggles, and we stand firmly with our fellow miners worldwide in the fight for justice, dignity, and the recognition of our fundamental rights.

Greeting from Andreas to MACUA

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Sunday, 09 February 2025 09:57; Hits: 392

Dear Miners and Families, Dear Friends of MACUA, We miners of the world stand shoulder to shoulder with the miners and their families in Stilfontein, who take on dangerous and hard work to survive with their families. Miners are miners, we do not allow ourselves to be divided into migrant or local, industrial or artisanal miners.

Reply from MACUA Christopher Rutledge christopher.rutledge@macua.org.za

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Thursday, 30 January 2025 12:19; Hits: 381

Dear Comrade Andreas Tadysiak and the International Miners' Coordination, Revolutionary greetings from MACUA and all the mining-affected communities we represent. We deeply appreciate your solidarity and the continued efforts of the International Miners' Coordination (IMC) in amplifying the plight of miners, their families, and the broader community affected by the horrific events in Stilfontein. Your letter of support, protest action in Berlin, and fundraising initiatives in Germany are a testament to the internationalism and shared struggle of working-class and mining-affected communities globally.

Andreas Tadysiak, the main coordinator of the International Miners' Coordination writes to MACUA (Mining Affected Communities United in Action):

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 27 January 2025 22:26; Hits: 379

Dear friends of MACUA, miners and their families, It is with great joy that we have learned that the rescue of the miners in Stilfontein has finally been fought for. Congratulations to all who contributed to this. At the same time, we are angry and shocked by the hundreds of uncounted dead and the terrible condition of those rescued. I am Andreas Tadysiak, a former underground coal miner with almost 40 years of professional experience and a trade union member.

Letter of protest to the South African government

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 27 January 2025 21:31; Hits: 355

Dear Mr President, We miners' wives in the Courage/Germany Women's Association protest in the strongest possible terms that you and your government are deliberately accepting the deaths of the trapped miners of Stilfontein. The starvation of the miners by the police is murder in our eyes.We call on you and your government to do everything in your power to ensure that the trapped miners of Shaft 11 are freed immediately and that help is allowed in without delay.

Solidarity letter to miners of Stilfontain and their families

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 27 January 2025 20:14; Hits: 407

Dear women, families of the miners of Stilfontein. We were horrified to read that the South African government is deliberately and inhumanely accepting the death of your husbands and sons.We are with you with all our hearts and you have our fullest solidarity. We mourn with you the miners who have already died. For us this is murder and the murderers are the police and the South African government who are keeping your men and sons trapped in the mines without food and water.

South Africa: Marikana's latest statement on the mass murder in Stilfontein

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Tuesday, 21 January 2025 19:22; Hits: 429

We denounce the premeditated mass murder of at least 109 miners by the government of South Africa!

The whole world has watched as half-starved and dead miners have been recovered from the Stilfontein mine near Johannesburg. The South African government, namely President Cyril Ramaphosa, state ministries and the police are responsible for this!

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