• Zimbabwe launches key policies on disability, migration ...

    Jun 10, 2021 · Zimbabwe launches key policies on disability, migration. HARARE, (CAJ News) – ZIMBABWE has launched the National Disability Policy and the National Labour .

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  • rand weak, labour unrest ...

    Aug 29, 2012 · JOHANNESBURG – South Africa's rand was slightly softer against the dollar at the start of Johannesburg trade on Wednesday, with labour unrest in the mining sector seen keeping it .

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  • Forced Labor and Colonial Development in Africa | SpringerLink

    Abstract. As European powers began to assert hegemony in much of Africa during the early twentieth century, forced labor became a common and cheap method of organizing the labor of colonial impoverished colonial states needed cheap African labor for infrastructure development while, in settler colonies, European immigrants and business interests also required affordable labor .

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  • Chamisa warns of civil unrest – Nehanda Radio

    Mar 26, 2019 · Zimbabwe is currently in the grip of a ginormous economic crisis which sparked riots in January when protesters who headed calls for a stayaway by labour unions clashed with heavily armed ...

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  • South Africa mine unrest hits world platinum firm ...

    Sep 12, 2012 · Labour unrest sweeping across South Africa's mining sector hit top world platinum producer Anglo American Platinum with striking miners blockading roads leading to shafts belonging to the mining giant, police said. The platinum price jumped as much as percent to 1, an ounce, its highest since midApril amid fears of more disruption to supplies [.]

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  • Caledonia Mining: A Growing Gold Miner Currently At A 34X ...

    Oct 30, 2019 · They bought the mine in 2006 and have steadily increased output since, despite political and economic unrest in Zimbabwe. This mine is .

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  • Mine workers join demands for US salaries

    Jan 07, 2019 · Spread This NewsBy Kwekwe Correspondent WORKRS in the mining sector have made a raft of demands which include payment of salaries in US Dollars as labour unrest .

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  • Northern Rhodesia

    Northern Rhodesia was a protectorate in south central Africa, formed in 1911 by amalgamating the two earlier protectorates of BarotzilandNorthWestern Rhodesia and NorthEastern Rhodesia. It was initially administered, as were the two earlier protectorates, by the British South Africa Company (BSAC), a chartered company, on behalf of the British Government.

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  • Zimbabwe man charged after 14yearold child bride dies ...

    Aug 20, 2021 · Machaya's husband Hatirarami Momberume, 26, was arrested this week and arraigned before a magistrate's court in Mutare, Zimbabwe's thirdlargest city, on Friday. Momberume was charged with murder for failing to take his wife to hospital when she went into labour pain, despite "realising that there was a real risk or possibility that his conduct ...

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  • Absenteeism | Labour Guide

    Unrest, Violence and political stayaway is becoming more infrequent these days but calls by the Unions for national strikes and stayaways are not so. A good policy to adopt is that quite simply, any absence because of unrest, violence, political stayaway .

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  • The mining industry strike wave: what are the causes and ...

    Oct 10, 2012 · The hard truth of South Africa's mining industry is that it is characterised by the stringent, inflexible economics of being global commodity price takers, critically dependent on the Rand/Dollar exchange rate, whilst simultaneously being constrained by a largely fixed and inflexible input cost structure composed of labour costs (50% plus of ...

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  • Diamond mining in Zimbabwe: A story of the people fighting ...

    Dec 18, 2017 · The history of Diamond mining can only be described as bloody. And diamond mining in Zimbabwe is no exception. In 2001 diamonds were first discovered in the Marange area in Eastern Zimbabwe. Since then these diamond field has been beset by conflict, bloodshed, forced labor and government crackdowns.

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  • The Battle of Blair Mountain

    Aug 25, 2016 · The Battle of Blair Mountain was the result of years of bitter labor disputes between the miners and coal companies of southern West Virginia. Since the late 1800s, the coalfields of the state's ...

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  • Lonmin strike goes on as South Africa mine unrest spreads ...

    Sep 10, 2012 · Thousands of Lonmin workers were defying a Monday deadline to return to shafts that have been idle for a month at the Marikana mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg. Growing labor unrest is challenging the ruling ANC's claim to be able to defend workers' interests while ensuring stable economic growth.

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  • Zimbabwe: Claims of forced labour at diamond mine a ...

    Oct 04, 2019 · Zimbabwe: Claims of forced labour at diamond mine a 'shameless lie'. Zimbabwe angrily denounced a US government decision to curb imports of diamonds from its Marange field, branding the claim the country uses forced labour at the operations "a shameless lie." "Invoking the repulsive prospect of alleged forced labour is a new nomenclature ...

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  • Marange diamond mines pollute rivers, Zimbabwe | EJAtlas

    Apr 08, 2014 · Instead thew workers are represented by workers committed which are highly vulnerable during times of unrest. Regarding the labour issues, the proposed alternative is to assist workers in all the diamond mining companies to form a strong labor union that will represent their interests. ... Labor Act 2801. Chamber of Mines of Zimbabwe ...

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  • Labor Movement

    Oct 29, 2009 · The labor movement in the United States grew out of the need to protect the common interest of workers. For those in the industrial sector, organized labor

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