Perspective needed in SA platinum crisis
The social pressures informing protests at South Africa’s platinum mines are
worrying and need addressing, but the doom and foreboding for the sector seems a
tad overdone.
Peace accord shatters NUM’s credibility
The National Union of Mineworkers has lost all the credibility it had among Lonmin’s
workforce when it committed to the company’s peace proposals. And rival Amcu
knows this.
Lonmin peace more unlikely than ever
The warring parties at Lonmin are no closer to any sort of peace agreement as 2,000
workers warn management to close all mines or run the risk of being killed.
How will Amplats play its optimisation study?
A large portion of the 500,000 oz platinum surplus could have been removed from the market amid labour unrest, but is this enough to change or delay the eagerly anticipated Amplats restructure?
Marikana, Mangaung and SA’s mining industry
If the government exacerbates the problems facing SA’s mining industry by
adopting ill-considered regulatory interventions, we are likely to see more
Marikana conflicts.
SA’s labour dispensation changed forever
The announcement that platinum miners are also seeking central bargaining
structures is much more far-reaching than what it seems at face value.
Tensions high as industry meets over Lonmin
SA’s mining industry has formally begun with damage control following a week
during which countless replays of dying mineworkers had the country making
news for all the wrong reasons.
‘Winner takes all’ is tinder to Amcu, the NUM
The way unions are organised at mines is not the immediate cause of the tragedy at Lonmin's Marikana mine, but distributing representation may take the fire out of tensions.
NUM no innocent victim in Lonmin violence
There seems to be a great desire among some established players in the mining
industry, none more so than the National Union of Mineworkers, to get rid of
the new trouble-stirring trade union Amcu.
De Beers US strategy focuses on clients
Sightholders are expected to make the trip to Botswana 10 times a year but De
Beers DTC is planning fresh visits of its own, for the first time.