” he said. “Most of the people, we are ready to go back to work.” The miners had been demanding a monthly salary of 12,500 rand ($1,513) – they currently earn between 4,000 and 5,000 rand. As well as a pay rise of 11-22%, they will get a one-off payment of 2,000 rand to help cover the weeks of not being paid while they were on strike. Analysts had warned that the Lonmin dea…
ople have gone back to work, we have noted that behavior, and we need to come up with a plan to deal with them.” The 13% turnout is a sharp drop from the 30% who turned up for work last week and 57% at the weekend. Operations at Lonmin’s mines have virtually ground to a halt since the strike over pay and conditions began earlier this month, causing international platinum prices to jump…
orker action at two other platinum mines. The world’s top platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum, said it had received a broad list of demands from its South African workers. Meanwhile, some 500 workers at a shaft in the nearby Royal Bafokeng Platinum Mine downed tools on Wednesday, demanding a pay increase and reportedly blocking fellow miners from going to work. Religious leaders have…
South African prosecutors have decided to provisionally drop murder charges against 270 miners at Lonmin Marikana platinum mine whose colleagues were shot dead by police. The charges cannot be dismissed formally until the end of the inquiry, but prosecutors said all detained miners would be freed. Local authorities used a controversial apartheid-era law to accuse the miners of provoking police to…
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d it had missed six days of production as a result of the unrest, and estimated it would lose around 2% of its normal yearly output of saleable platinum. Lonmin’ share price dropped by more than 6% on Thursday on the London Stock Exchange. The violence has shocked South Africans, with many finding the scenes reminiscent of how the apartheid regime dealt with protests. …
…#8220;There was no need whatsoever for these people to be killed like that,” General Secretary Jeffrey Mphahlele told Reuters news agency. The miners, who are currently earning between 4,000 and 5,000 rand ($484-$605), say they want their salary increased to 12,500 rand ($1,512). South Africa is the largest platinum producer in the world and the dispute has already affected production. Lonmi…
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er told AFP news agency. Correspondents at the scene said workers outside the mine were unarmed and in a calmer mood than on previous occasions. The miners, who are currently earning between 4,000 and 5,000 rand ($484-$605) a month, say they want their salary increased to 12,500 rand ($1,512). …
At least 30 people have been killed after South African police clashed with striking miners at Lonmin Marikana mine on Thursday, the police minister has said. According to witnesses, police opened fire on strikers armed mostly with clubs and machetes. The Lonmin-owned platinum mine has been at the centre of a violent pay dispute, exacerbated by tensions between two rival trade unions. Violence du…
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He said he would make an emergency landing.” There have been a number of deadly plane crashes in Sudan in recent years. In August, a civilian plane crashed in a southern state, killing more than 30 people including a government minister. The authorities say it is hard to get spare parts because of US sanctions against Khartoum. Government forces are still involved in clashes with rebels in D…
Miners arrested at Lonmin Marikana mine in South Africa will be charged later with the murder of 34 colleagues shot by police, an official has said. A prosecuting authority spokesman said that 270 workers would be tried under the “common purpose” doctrine. They were in the crowd which confronted the police, who opened fire, sparking a national outcry. Police have not been charged beca…
…that Iran also be allowed to attend, a move strongly opposed by the US and its allies. The UN says at least 10,000 people have died in the uprising that began in March 2011. The Syrian government says 6,143 Syrian citizens have been killed by “terrorist groups” since. The main rebel fighting group, the Free Syrian Army (FSA), has become increasingly better organized – and armed &…
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…be given with drugs to suppress the immune system. British researchers have shown that a tumor-killing virus can sneak around the body by "hitchhiking" on the back of blood cells A study in 10 people at the University of Leeds and The Institute of Cancer Research, at the Royal Marsden Hospital, showed that the virus could escape the immune system by hiding in the blood. All the patients…
Laden would have been captured if he gave himself up. The author said a SEAL team would not have been sent in for a kill mission, adding: “If it was a kill mission you don’t need SEAL Team 6; you need a box of hand grenades.” He also gives a dramatic new insight into what happened during the 1:00 a.m. raid, during which only 12 bullets were fired. Within 90 seconds of their helic…
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Erica Mae Butts and Shanita Latrice Cunningham, a lesbian couple collapsed, wailed uncontrollably and hyper-ventilated in the Charleston courtroom after hearing they would serve life for killing a three-year-old girl. Erica Mae Butts and Shanita Latrice Cunningham had to be picked off the floor by court officials and held in chairs as they were wheeled out of the room. The two women, both 25 from…
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