There is increasing international pressure to ensure that mining development is aligned with local and national development objectives. In South Africa, legislation requires mining companies to produce Social and Labour Plans, which are aimed at addressing local developmental concerns.Against the background of the new mining …

1. Introduction. The South African mining industry (SAMI) is a significant contributor to the economy of the country but faces sustainability, occupational health, and safety challenges, .The SAMI is traditionally labor intensive and takes place in difficult conditions, .In addition, the SAMI has residual problems faced by mine workers, …

A history of mining in South Africa. M ining in South Africa has been a contentious issue since 15-year-old Erasmus Stephanus Jacobs discovered South Africa's first diamond, the Eureka, in Hopetown in 1867. It kickstarted what historians call the Mineral Revolution, which made few European opportunists wealthy beyond measure, and saw …

Industrial scale mining in South Africa began in the 1850's with the establishment of the first copper mine. Then, in 1867, diamonds were discovered in Hopetown, and in 1870 gold was discovered.

transcends the limits of current dominant reductionist perspectives on what it ... (McBean 1978). Labour on the mines in South Africa continued to be sourced from neighbouring countries, notably Mozambique, Lesotho, ... with low pay and living in conditions of poverty, either in mine compounds or in informal settlements near the mines (Ndebele ...

PHOTOS: South Africa's zama-zamas risk their lives in deserted diamond mines : Goats and Soda Photos show the desperate search for scraps left by big diamond operators. But amid rampant poverty ...

Conditions are often atrocious with labor-intensive and hazardous work, scandalously low pay, violent management or threat of violence, and harrowing impacts on nearby communities. The mining industry is also riddled with conflict, giving rise to the term "blood diamonds" in the early 2000s. This refers to diamonds produced from war zones ...

helped to determine the conditions of employment for the generations of migrant mineworkers that followed them. ... published in 1942 and Francis Wilson's Labour in South Africa's Gold Mines ; 1911 to 1969 in 1972.2 Frederick Johnstone's Class, Race and Gold (1976) was International Labor and Working-Class History

The stated intention to eliminate silicosis from the South African goldmining industry as well as current programmes to find and compensate ex-miners with silicosis require an understanding of variation in silicosis prevalence across the industry. We aimed to identify the predictors of radiological silicosis in a large sample of working miners …

South Africa's mineral resources have produced, and continue to produce, enormous economic wealth; yet decades of colonialism, apartheid, capital flight, and challenges in the neoliberal post-apartheid era have resulted in high rates of occupational lung disease and low rates of compensation for ex-miners and their families. Given …

employment conditions on perceived skill shortages in the South African gold mines could be attributed to three factors. Firstly, in South Africa, the minimum terms and employ ment conditions are ...

The second case study site was a fully mechanized gold mine in Gauteng Province, South Africa. The mine operated underground at depths of 3000 m. The average wet bulb temperature in the workplaces was 27.5°C. The mine used CONOPs arrangements. Changes to the shift systems at the mine had been made to improve productivity and to …

A little-known feature of the vast migrant labour system that supplied South Africa's gold-mining industry was the Deferred Pay Interest Fund. For much of the 20th …

This chapter outlines the basic features of gold mining in South Africa. The structure, administration and economic significance of the mines, the key technical …

South Africa - Gold Mining, Economy, History: Prospectors established in 1886 the existence of a belt of gold-bearing reefs 40 miles (60 km) wide centred on present-day Johannesburg. The rapid growth of the gold-mining industry intensified processes started by the diamond boom: immigration, urbanization, capital investment, and labour …

In 2019, the mining of gold contributed approximately $23.9 billion to South Africa's GDP. MPONENG GOLD MINE – 45.81 MOZ ... Sheba mines, some of the oldest and highest-grade mines in the world, the Barberton area is characterized by high-grade gold bearing reefs with current mineral reserves proven at 1.4 Moz and an annual …

Pressure is high for Ramaphosa's administration to reassert the global competitiveness of the nation's mining sector. In 2020, South Africa came 60th out of 77 jurisdictions in the Fraser Institute's Annual Survey of Mining and Exploration Companies report, fourth bottom out of 13 African countries while Botswana topped Africa's list ...

South African gold loses its shine. South Africa's gold production is in decline, with platinum group metals looking increasingly lustrous by comparison, and …

The gold price reached a near record high of about $2 000/oz in August 2020 and rand gold prices have touched record levels of about R1.3-million a kilogram – with the gold market having ...

Although the legislation covers all mining commodities, including asbestos, the emphasis here is on gold mining. HISTORY. The first Act was succeeded by 18 further Acts, the latest being the Occupational Diseases in Mines and Works Act, No. 78 of 1973 (ODMWA) [Republic of South Africa, 1973a].

Mining is an important contributor to the South African economy. It employs around 450,000 people and makes a direct contribution of 8.1% to GDP. Approximately 78% of these people work on gold ...

The Transkei and the Migrant Labour System from the 1970s. In the 1970s, a confluence of circumstances threatened to plunge the gold-mining industry into crisis, namely the sudden withdrawal of migrant workers from outside South Africa, a surge of African labour militancy within South Africa and the transformation of the economics of …

In 1986, 800 South African miners died at work. Since the end of apartheid in 1994, South Africa's mines have gradually become safer. Fatalities reached a record low of 51 in 2019 — still almost one per week on average. During the Covid-19 pandemic, those figures rose again, although to nowhere near their apartheid levels.

The conclusion draws together the main themes of the book and brings the story of the miners' class action up to date. For most of the twentieth century, gold mining dominated South Africa's economy. Through their extensive use of migrant labour, the industry helped shape the economies—and populations—of the southern half of the …

This article looks at the legal framework that governs the mining sector in South Africa in the context of 4IR. The Labour Relations Act (LRA) provides for collective bargaining …

The study population comprised all workers employed at eight mines in South Africa; the study mines were identified by …

Background Mine workers in South Africa face challenges relating to poor health and safety, including fatigue risks, and poor socioeconomic and living conditions. …

1. The scholarship on the Chinese labor experiment in South Africa is scant, comprising a handful of monographs and articles. The present work is indebted to this literature while aiming to correct certain limitations (such as an exclusive use of British/South African sources) and placing the experience and politics of Chinese mine …

It is a voluntary association of private sector mining finance houses, mining companies and mines. It has over 80 members drawn from South Africa's gold, coal, diamond, platinum, antinomy, asbestos, manganese, lead and copper mining sections. The members account for approximately 85% of the mineral output of South Africa.

Ghana's Chamber of Mines said the country's gold output increased by 14% in 2018 to 4.8 million oz, overtaking South Africa's output of 4.2 million oz for the first time and making it Africa's largest gold producer. "The sharp decline in gold output is remarkable, given that South Africa has the world's second-largest reserves of the ...