• The South Africa miners strike was a one-day strike by the National Union of Mineworkers of South Africa over working conditions and safety in the country's...
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    The 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike was a major industrial action within the British coal industry in an attempt to prevent closures of pits that...
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  • Miners' strikes are when miners conduct strike actions. List of strikes History of coal mining in the United States https://www.bls...
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    labor strikes by size List of miners' strikes List of worker deaths in United States labor disputes Streetcar strikes in the United States Strikes during...
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    widespread strike among miners in the Witwatersrand area of the Transvaal Province in the former Union of South Africa. In 2007 the South African National...
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  • Namibian contract workers general strike was a labour dispute in Namibia between African contract workers (particularly miners) and the apartheid government...
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  • affiliates Limusa, NUM merge". IOL. Retrieved 27 May 2023. "South African miners out on strike". English.aljazeera.net. Retrieved 10 August 2018. "Marikana...
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    system of institutionalised racial segregation that existed in South Africa and South West Africa (now Namibia) from 1948 to the early 1990s. Apartheid was...
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    Andrews. It first came to prominence during the Rand Rebellion, a strike by white miners in 1922. The large mining concerns, facing labour shortages and...
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    This is a timeline of the history of the area in present-day South Africa....
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    Crime in South Africa includes all violent and non-violent crimes that take place in the country of South Africa, or otherwise within its jurisdiction...
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  • Lonmin (category Mining in South Africa)
    headquarters were in Johannesburg, South Africa. Lonmin rose to international attention following the Marikana miners' strike in August 2012, in which over...
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  • (North Carolina, 2007) 2009 Lindsey Oil Refinery strikes Spanish air traffic controllers strike, 2010 Marikana miners' strike (South Africa, 2012) Alberta...
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    Bushveld Igneous Complex (category Geology of South Africa)
    mining-related strikes since before the 21st century: Impala strike, 1986 Gencor strike, 2004 Impala and Anglo Plats strikes, 2007 South Africa miners' strike, 2012...
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  • Anglo American Platinum (category Mining companies of South Africa)
    of strikes occurred across the South African mining sector. As of early October, analysts estimated that approximately 75,000 miners were on strike from...
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    Mponeng Gold Mine (category Gold mines in South Africa)
    the strike of 2012 included a wildcat strike at a nearby platinum mine ended with 34 miners dying from police interactions. Harmony Gold, Africa's largest...
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    Keir Hardie (category Coal miner activists)
    for his fellow miners. In 1879, Hardie was elected leader of a miners' union in Hamilton and organised a National Conference of Miners in Dunfermline...
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  • post-apartheid South Africa Abahlali baseMjondolo The Anti-Privatisation Forum The Landless Peoples Movement The Marikana miners' strike The Mandela Park...
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  • A major strike broke out among African mineworkers in the Copperbelt Province of Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia) on 29 May 1935 in protest against taxes...
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    persisted, with African mineworkers organizing the 1935 Copperbelt strike over poor safety standards and increased taxes. In 1940, miners in Northern Rhodesia...
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    Cyril Ramaphosa (category University of South Africa alumni)
    police shootings, 34 miners died and an additional 78 miners were injured causing anger and outcry against the police and South African government. Further...
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    Anglo–Boer War, or South African War, was a conflict fought between the British Empire and the two Boer republics (the South African Republic and Orange...
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  • rockfalls at East Driefontein gold mine, injuring 19 miners, 3 seriously. 26 – The South African Geographical Names Council approves the name change of...
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    inhabited South Africa more than 100,000 years ago. In 1999, UNESCO designated the region the Cradle of Humankind World Heritage site. South Africa's first...
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    militant miners attempting to prevent other miners from working proved a shock even to some supporters of the strikes. The NUM never held a strike vote,...
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  • Rasool January 10 – Three miners are killed and four others are injured when a magnitude 2.4 earthquake traps twelve miners underground at the TauTona...
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  • Impala Platinum (category Mining companies of South Africa)
    was the killing of thirty-four miners by the South African Police Service (SAPS) on 16 August 2012, during a wildcat strike at the Lonmin platinum mine in...
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    000 workers were on strike. During the labor dispute, both the Industrial Workers of the World and the Western Federation of Miners (WFM) fought to recruit...
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    The African National Congress (ANC) is a political party in South Africa. It originated as a liberation movement known for its opposition to apartheid...
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    bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in South Africa have the same legal rights as non-LGBT people. South Africa has a complex and diverse history regarding...
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