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Ayabonga Jokanisi

Marikana talks stagger on

Those negotiating for miners’ families say the state has been nothing but bloody-minded

“Scenes of Marikana are going to become more a reality because there’s going to be so many unprotected strikes

Paradise for corporates and ultrarich

The Paradise Papers highlight the need for enforcing regulations to stem tax avoidance

Cathrine Molope yearns to return and to once again have the peace and serenity of feeling ‘at home’.

Sons and daughters of the soil seek to claim the land that shaped them

​There are plans to build a memorial to honour the 44 men who died during the unprotected strike that culminated in the Marikana massacre.

“What made us poor and poverty stricken was the dispossession of land. When you get it

Big stink: How Lonmin paid R20m for just two toilets for Marikana workers

The mining company is accused of ‘undermining black lives’ by leaving a toilet project unfinished.

Spy claims imperil mine wage talks

The revelation could undermine trust built up in the platinum belt since Marikana.

The rise and fall of Lonmin

It’s now up to the shareholders to decide the fate of the one-time investors’ darling, mining company Lonmin.

Victims of the Marikana massacre have prepared themselves for a long

Lonmin to cut jobs, close shafts amid platinum slump

The planned 6 000 job cuts include contractors and staff who took voluntary redundancy packages offered in May.

Lonmin interdicts ‘unrest’ report

Advocacy group agrees not to make statements that will adversely affect company’s share price

President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the bill into law in January and it came into effect on 31 July.

Cyril Ramaphosa’s Lonmin tax-dodge headache

Having recently blasted corporate tax evaders, the deputy president now has egg on his face after Lonmin’s Bermuda tax avoidance tactics surfaced.

The Farlam commission has been postponed until next week to study information police have held back in the inquiry into 44 deaths at Marikana.

‘Nyet, nyet, nyet’: Lonmin grilled at Farlam commission

Lonmin’s chief commercial officer Albert Jamieson was asked why the company had failed to pursue every option at its disposal to avoid violence.

Mining strike hangover lingers painfully

Pay cheques are in but many business owners will struggle to recover from the five-month platinum mine wage dispute.

Lonmin and Amcu members sign agreements to end the five-month strike.

Tsunami mining strike changes landscape

Retrenchments in the platinum mining sector are now all but inevitable, say labour experts.

Lonmin chief executive Ben Magara announces the end of the longest strike in South Africa’s history.

Miners return to work and food parcels

Miners returning to work received food parcels, health supplements and transport relief, but will have to undergo medicals and retraining.

Platinum miners during a wage increase strike on January 23 2014 in Marikana.

Solidarity urges Amcu to accept wage offer

The trade union says Amcu’s latest counter proposal on behalf of mineworkers borders on negotiating in bad faith and "defeating the ends of justice".

President Jacob Zuma.

Zuma looks to increase investor confidence as SA economy buckles

The president is under pressure to buoy investor confidence with his State of the Nation Address amid a credit-rating downgrade and ongoing strike.

How long could the mines hold out?

Platinum stockpiles and a market surplus mean the mineworker strike is almost convenient for the mining companies.

Miners scramble for food vouchers

Striking miners are getting state help – but only if they are early, and South African.

Headache: ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe had to change his tune after NEC members rebuked him.

Editorial: Mantashe trades straw men for scarecrows

Does Gwede Mantashe expect us to believe that four people are solely responsible for the longest, most bitter strike in South Africa’s history?

Tension is mounting amid a heavy police and private security presence at Lonmin .

Ramatlhodi denies abandoning platinum strike talks

The mines minister says a state task team that intervened in Amcu’s wage negotiations has "done enough work" for the parties to continue.

The union federation’s future lies in finding its former unity of purpose and its workerist focus

Platinum firms mull pay plan after Amcu rejects govt proposal

Strike talks between government, platinum miners and Amcu are due to resume after reports the mineworkers’ union rejected a pay offer by government.