SOUTH AFRICA: Wage Agreement

2012 ◽  
Vol 49 (7) ◽  
pp. 19622B-19622C
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Wage Agreement

South Africa polls may bring mining improvements

2019 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Carbon Tax ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Embedded Generation ◽  
Wage Agreement

Significance This followed just a week after AMCU and miner Sibanye-Stillwater reached a wage agreement after a protracted five-month strike at the latter’s goldmines. Meanwhile, the latest draft Mining Charter remains in limbo after a recent court challenge by the Minerals Council. Impacts AMCU leader Joseph Mathunjwa could face a forthcoming leadership challenge should the union’s struggles worsen. Government efforts to encourage post-election investment could include concessions on a planned carbon tax. Increasing energy tariffs will prompt mines to accelerate moves towards embedded generation.

Leadership, labour woes to hurt South Africa mining

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Government Policies ◽  
Mining Sector ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Wage Agreement ◽  
Leadership Changes ◽  
Construction Union ◽  
Coal Reserves

Significance The gold sector has so far avoided strikes (NUM concluded a wage agreement affecting two firms on October 2), unlike the wider mining sector. Government policies and support initiatives, along with leadership changes, are unlikely to improve the outlook. Impacts The special tax commission's rejection of windfall taxes on mining will provide a moderate confidence boost. However, strong support for such measures from ANC provincial bodies could keep them on the party's agenda. The NUM strike raises the risk of power blackouts given the country's dependence on Eskom's finite coal reserves. NUM rival, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU), could reject the gold sector wage agreement, raising strike risks. AMCU only has sufficient members for a protected strike at Sibanye Gold, opening the possibility of retrenchments.

Time and Latitude in South Africa

1972 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
pp. 27-38
Author(s):  
J. Hers
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Cape Town ◽  
Astronomical Observations ◽  
Royal Observatory ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Astronomical Determination ◽  
Limited Accuracy ◽  
Better Than

In South Africa the modern outlook towards time may be said to have started in 1948. Both the two major observatories, The Royal Observatory in Cape Town and the Union Observatory (now known as the Republic Observatory) in Johannesburg had, of course, been involved in the astronomical determination of time almost from their inception, and the Johannesburg Observatory has been responsible for the official time of South Africa since 1908. However the pendulum clocks then in use could not be relied on to provide an accuracy better than about 1/10 second, which was of the same order as that of the astronomical observations. It is doubtful if much use was made of even this limited accuracy outside the two observatories, and although there may – occasionally have been a demand for more accurate time, it was certainly not voiced.

Combining Professional Interests and Travel: People to People Citizen Ambassador Program

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 47-54
Author(s):  
Alex Johnson ◽  
Amanda Hitchins
Keyword(s):  
South Africa ◽  
Health Education ◽  
Communication Disorders ◽  
Social Conditions ◽  
Speech Language Pathologists ◽  
Exchange Program

Abstract This article summarizes a series of trips sponsored by People to People, a professional exchange program. The trips described in this report were led by the first author of this article and include trips to South Africa, Russia, Vietnam and Cambodia, and Israel. Each of these trips included delegations of 25 to 50 speech-language pathologists and audiologists who participated in professional visits to learn of the health, education, and social conditions in each country. Additionally, opportunities to meet with communication disorders professionals, students, and persons with speech, language, or hearing disabilities were included. People to People, partnered with the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA), provides a meaningful and interesting way to learn and travel with colleagues.

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