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South Africa: Strike in gold mining

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Wednesday, 09 December 2020 16:57; Hits: 1150

Since December 1, the workforce of the Village Main Reef gold mine in Matlosana, southwest of Johannesburg, has been on strike. The miners had noticed that allowances for funerals and severance payments for those laid off were not being paid. For weeks, the NUM union demanded information from management about the whereabouts of pension contributions to the pension fund, which continued to be deducted from the workers' salaries.

Africa: Report of our Continental Coordinator

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Friday, 27 November 2020 12:57; Hits: 1177

As far as the pandemic is concerned, the countries of the Third World, and especially the Arab countries, have applied the law of state of emergency, which gives governments the right to ban all demonstrations and demands and gives them the right to persecute and condemn activists, it is an opportunity to attack all the achievements of the working class.

Declaration of solidarity to the Congolese miners

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Saturday, 19 September 2020 04:12; Hits: 1276

Hello miners, relatives and friends, Through the news and the internet we have heard about the terrible accident at your gold mine in Kamituga, South Kivu province. We are deeply shocked by this tragedy which has left over 50 people dead. Our thoughts are with you and your relatives. But we also feel anger and indignation that such an accident is happening today.

Congo: Voici la déclaration de la dame concernée

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Tuesday, 15 September 2020 10:44; Hits: 1274

,I am Dr Rekha,Indian citizen.i came here on regular request of Ritesh shah,he is Dyms at HJ hospital.i appointed as gynecologist at HJ.some month passes smoothly.after I found single women are called here,if some one want to call known or some family members ,they refused.they start directly and indirectly torture on them.only females who follow their orders,they allow them them to do their job, otherwise they start to torture them and they left the job.they terminate mostly females to put pressure on them.if female ready to obey them,she was physically abused by doctors and higher management, even some girls are supplied outside.some female staff went to their embassy but they don't get response as this people manipulate the higher authority by bribe or power.

democratic Republic Kongo: Report about the Mining Sector

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Thursday, 02 July 2020 18:44; Hits: 1205

FOSYCO has its central Headquarters in the three mining Provinces Katanga, Kasai-Oriental and South-Kivu. It may be emphasized, that the headquarters of all companies normaly are localized in the capital Kinshasa. In general commit all mining companies their employees to stay on site. Some Companies grants modest bonuses, which in no way compensated the work and availability of the employees at the work places compared with the social legislation.

Kenia: To the miners and their members of the Macalder mines

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 04 June 2018 19:45; Hits: 1863

Dear families and mates,

We learned about the bad luck in the Macalder mines through the Kenyan Peasants League. With our thoughts we are with the trapped and missing colleagues who are fighting for their lives, but also with the relatives of the killed buddies and their friends.

Kenya: Two dead and four missing miners

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 04 June 2018 19:36; Hits: 1858

Two miners have been confirmed dead and four others are still missing in Macalder Mines in Nyatike Migori County after the quarry collapsed due to heavy rains that is pounding the area.
According to reports in one of the local dailies the Star, the bodies of the dead miners were pulled 24 hours after the accident raising issues regarding disaster response when such cases occur.

Namibia: Workers' march to the headquarters of the Uranium Group

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 04 June 2018 18:50; Hits: 1828

180530namibia Employees of the Langer Heinrich Uranium (LHU) mine have expressed dissatisfaction with how negotiations were handled when the majority of them were laid off recently when the mine was mothballed.

South Africa: Demand for better safety after nearly 1,000 miners trapped

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Saturday, 24 March 2018 16:20; Hits: 1897

Trade unions in South Africa are calling for an urgent review of safety after almost 1,000 miners were trapped underground for more than 24-hours at the Sibanye-Stillwater Beatrix gold mine in Free State.

All the 955 miners had been brought to the surface by around 6am on Friday 2 February after being stuck down the mine following a storm on the night of Wednesday 31 January that caused a power outage.

Zimbabwe Women Stage Sit-In for Husbands’ Unpaid Wages February 5, 2018 Tula Connell

Details: Category: Africa; Created: Monday, 19 February 2018 01:09; Hits: 4544

Hundreds of women in western Zimbabwe who have waged a week-long sit-in at Hwange Colliery Co. Ltd. (HCCL), demanding unpaid wages for their husbands who labor in the company’s coal mines, say they are set to march to tourist-packed Victoria Falls. There, says the women’s spokesperson, Thokozile Ncube, “we will tell the world everything about the company and how our government has failed us.”

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