SOUTH AFRICA: MINERS STRIKE ENTERS SECOND WEEK WITH SOLID SUPPORT

Record ID: 341946

  • Title: SOUTH AFRICA: MINERS STRIKE ENTERS SECOND WEEK WITH SOLID SUPPORT
  • Date: 16th August 1987
  • Summary: 1. SV Miners entering NUM headquarters 0.05 2. GVs NUM official speaking while miners listening, and then chanting (5 SHOTS) 0.29 3. GV, CU Miners dancing and singing (3 SHOTS) 0.40 4. CU Marcel Golding, NUM spokesman, speaking (ENGLISH SOT) 0.50 5. SV Women preparing food for strikers (2 SHOTS) 1.00 6. GV Miners picketing highway (2 SHOTS) 1.06 7. CU Man showing injury on face 1.09 TRANSCRIPT: Golding: (SEQ 4) "We believe that if the goldfield mines join the strike immediately on Monday the Chamber of Mines would capitulate, and on Wednesday we would have a settlement". Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 31st August 1987 13:00
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  • Location: GOLDFIELDS NEAR JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA
  • Country: South Africa
  • Topics: General
  • Reuters ID: LVADG5W8KZ5U5L3530W6TE87K8ZE
  • Story Text: GOLDFIELDS NEAR JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA

    Striking black miners in South Africa vowed on August 16 to continue their industrial action over wages and safety issues. The strike has now entered its second week, with an estimated 300,000 miners taking part. Leaders of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) met in Johannesburg on August 16. They said the strike had been successful, and they called on mine management to accede to union demands. The strike has been marked by sporadic fighting between striking miners and security forces, and Cyril Ramaphosa, leader of the NUM, called on mining companies to allow independent observers on to mine sites. Meanwhile, other black miners from the goldfields mines near to Johannesburg have said that they too will join the industrial action. The goldfields workers do not operate through the NUM but said they would take industrial action as a sign of support. The strike has been well organised, with material support being made available for those taking part.

    <strong>Source: REUTERS - WILLIE QUBEKA</strong>
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