• Mining in SA: Then, now, and into the future

    According to a report cited last year by PricewaterhouseCoopers (PWC), an accounting firm, South Africa has the highest cost of labour as a percentage of total costs among the major mining producers. It averages around 60%, whereas the costs in the United States and Australia average around 30% to .

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  • Working and Living Conditions of Workers in the Mining ...

    Labour legislative framework in the mining sector. Legislation governing the rights and obligations of employers and employees in the mining sector in Zambia is mainly contained in the Industrial and Labour Relations Act, Chapter 269 of the Laws of Zambia.

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  • Right now labour is SA's big story with the stark options ...

    Aug 30, 2013 · Right now labour is SA's big story with the stark options: the Highway or the Dirt Road ... the country's labour relations system is at a crossroads with a "highway", or "dirt road" scenario. ... the complexity of labour relations in the mining industry and within Cosatu ranks is heightened because of trade union rivalry and discord ...

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  • The DRC Mining Industry: Child Labor and Formalization of ...

    Sep 01, 2021 · Child Labor. Smallscale mining in the DRC involves people of all ages, including children, obligated to work under harsh conditions. Of the 255,000 Congolese mining for cobalt, 40,000 are children, some as young as six years. Much of the work is informal smallscale mining in which laborers earn less than 2 per day while using their own tools ...

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  • A century of migrant labour in the gold mines of South Africa

    Although South Africa's economy is no longer dependent on mining, the industry still matters for the country's economy and its social fabric ( Marais et al., 2018, p. 13). ...

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  • 3 court judgments that have changed the face of mining in SA

    Dec 10, 2018 · The minister of mineral resources imposed a moratorium in June 2017 on TEM's appliion for mining rights in the area due to the volatility .

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  • South Africa – Economic Challenges

    Apr 12, 2016 · At R470 billion ( billion), the wages bill for South Africa's million public servants is a severe drain on government finances. In pushing up interest rates, the South African Reserve Bank is undertaking a delie balancing act of reining in inflation while trying not to reduce the prospects for economic growth and job creation.

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  • Trade unions in an emerging economy: The case of South Africa

    South Africa's labour market efficiency Average annual strikes intensity (number of strikers per 1000 workers) : Average measures of trade union power in the late 1990s, by countryincome level

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  • Mining Industry Development Outlook

    Nov 04, 2021 · The mining industry in Zimbabwe is expected to continue to grow on the back of firming mineral prices and rising output in 2011. The Minister of Finance forecasts a growth rate of 44% for the mining sector. Industry growth in the medium to longterm, however, depends on the ability to attract investment into current and new projects, as well as ...

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  • South Africa's Natural Resources: Helping the Economy

    Dec 07, 2016 · South Africa is home to nearly twothirds of the world's platinum and about half of the chromium. Gold and diamonds revolutionized the country in the 1800s and helped strengthen the country's economic structure. These discoveries ensured the country's survival and sustainability for a time, allowing it to be less reliant on foreign support.

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  • What are challenges still facing the South African labour ...

    Sep 16, 2016 · The mining industry in particular has suffered severe labour relations instability since shortly before the Marikana tragedy, in August 2012, and the growing significance of a new mining trade union has presented very significant challenges to collective bargaining in the sector. The impact has spread to a number of other industries.

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  • SA economy will take years to recover from COVID19 ...

    Aug 21, 2020 · Mining activity has remained resilient; Winter farm output is good. "The SA economy has followed the global and national economies into a sharp recession. The COVID19 pandemic has brought about unprecedented changes in and organisational behaviour, social distancing, and severe operating and travel restrictions," says Mr Steve ...

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  • South Africa: When Strong Institutions and Massive ...

    Mar 18, 2021 · The first dozen or so years of South Africa's democracy was a season of hope (as per the title of Alan Hirsch's book on economic reform under the country's first two presidents). 22 In this hopeful phase of the Hirschman cycle, the country embraced the ANC's electoral slogan, "a better life for all," and its vision of realizing ...

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  • A massive labour migration is starting in SA's mining ...

    Jun 11, 2020 · A massive labour migration is starting in SA's mining industry postlockdown. SA's mining production, which plunged by half in April, is meant to be ramping up as lockdown restrictions ease. Mining companies are heavily reliant on highly skilled migrant workers, who must be transported back to the mines quickly.

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  • Relations With South Africa

    Jan 14, 2020 · Bilateral Economic Relations. South Africa is the largest trade partner in Africa, with a total twoway goods trade of 14 billion in 2018. Approximately 600 businesses operate in South Africa, many of which use South Africa as regional headquarters. South Africa qualifies for preferential trade benefits under the African Growth and ...

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  • Theorising and analysing digital labour: From global value ...

    According to Jairus Banaji (2011), Marx's theory of the mode of production shows that "capitalist relations of production are compatible with a wide variety of forms of labour, from chattelslavery, sharecropping, or the domination of casual labourmarkets, to the coerced wagelabour peculiar to colonial regimes and, of course, 'free' wagelabour" (Banaji, 2011: 359).

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  • The Impact of CompanyLevel ART Provision to a Mining ...

    Sep 01, 2015 · Republic of South Africa Department of Mineral Resources. Amendment of the broadbased socioeconomic empowerment charter for the South African mining and minerals industry. Pretoria: Republic of South Africa Department of Mineral Resources; 2010. 64. Brink B. The business case for extractive industry involvement in the fight against AIDS and TB.

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  • South Africa: economy overview | Brand South Africa

    Dec 28, 2015 · Ranked by the World Bank as an "upper middleincome country', South Africa is the largest economy in Africa. In 2014, the World Bank listed its GDP at () and its population at 54 million. Per capita GDP is 6 483, according to the World Economic Forum. The country remains rich with promise.

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  • New Legislation Requiring Secret Strike Ballots is the ...

    Sep 30, 2019 · Like almost everything in SA's labour relations, the likely effect of secret ballots is disputed. The acting head of Business Unity, Cas Coovadia, said SA is a strikeprone country, but at this difficult economic moment, the really crucial thing is for everyone in SA to focus on working together to improve economic growth.

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  • South Africa's transport future depends on how economy is ...

    Nov 21, 2019 · South Africa's transport future was "very bright", Ramdhar said, adding that it would provide plenty of opportunities for growth. Further, South Africa Incorporated would need to consider ...

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  • Industrial Relations: Definition, Scope, Objectives, Types ...

    Industrial relations may be defined as the relations and interactions in the industry particularly between the labour and management as a result of their composite attitudes and approaches in regard to the management of the affairs of the industry, for the betterment of not only the management and the workers but also of the industry and the economy as a whole.

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