Labor unions have threatened strikes over the job cuts at mining firms as well planned reductions at a numerous state-owned companies. JOHANNESBURG – South Africa’s gold and platinum mines will shed around 90,000 jobs in the next three years as above-inflation electricity price increases by power utility Eskom add to already soaring operating costs, an..
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Eskom crisis as not just a crisis but a potential disaster – Eskom Price Hike To Cost SA 90,000 Mining Jobs – Unemployment rates to rise, all thanks to Eskom!
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Rolling Blackouts on the cards as AMCU threaten secondary strike , AMCU represents about half of coal mine workers in SA
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The tussle between Sibanye-Stillwater and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) has reached new heights. The trade union, whose membership also includes coal mine workers, has teased a secondary strike and this could affect load shedding too. Why is AMCU set to embark on a secondary strike? AMCU president, Joseph Mathunjwa, made it..
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