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| Title: | Briefing: the politics of Marikana and South Africa's changing labour relations |
| Author: | Botiveau, Raphaël |
| Year: | 2014 |
| Periodical: | African Affairs: The Journal of the Royal African Society (ISSN 1468-2621) |
| Volume: | 113 |
| Issue: | 450 |
| Pages: | 128-137 |
| Language: | English |
| Geographic term: | South Africa |
| Subjects: | labour relations mining trade unions |
| External link: | http://afraf.oxfordjournals.org/content/113/450/128.full.pdf |
| Abstract: | Since the South African police killed 34 strikers in Marikana in August 2012, labour unrest has continued across the country's mining sector. The continuing labour unrest represents the most significant internal crisis that has faced the Tripartite Alliance composed of the ANC, COSATU, and the South African Communist Party (SACP) since it came to power twenty years ago. This briefing begins by discussing the 2012 mining strikes - when workers demanded major wage increases and rejected the intermediation of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), aligned with the ANC - to demonstrate the complexity of the challenge faced by the NUM, as well as by unions in the Tripartite Alliance. It argues that beyond some degree of spontaneity on the part of the strikers, what made the strikes such an enduring challenge was that they were organized through and by the AMCU, the more recent and militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union. The fall of the NUM in the platinum sector is contextualized in the framework of post-apartheid labour relations that failed to transform and pacify a racially segregated industry. Ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |
