"Mine workers are kindly requesting for a national labour inspection across all mines in Zimbabwe big and small, particularly Chinese owned mines," reads the ZIDAMWU letter. "Mine workers have reached a position that requires your intervention before the deteriorating working conditions and environment degenerate into chaos and …
Abstract This article looks at the shifts and continuities in labor relations in Zimbabwe from c. 1900–2000. It does so by looking at three cross sections (1904, 1951, and 2002) to examine the changes that have taken place. By exploring the continuities (subsistence agriculture) and shifts (limited industrialization and urbanization) of labor …
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The biggest challenge at this juncture is to get the government to do something about the unrest besides shoot and arrest protesters. Zimbabwe desperately needs reform if the government is to keep the country reasonably stable and preserve its re-engagement with international donors, a process that started with Mugabe's ouster. To …
Edwardian Labour Unrest and Coalfield Militancy, 1890–1914* - Volume 30 Issue 4. 22 August 2024: Due to technical disruption, we are experiencing some delays to publication. We are working to restore services and apologise for the inconvenience. ... For an historian's interpretation of mining communities see Storm-Clark, Christopher, ...
Zimbabwe this week deported two Chinese nationals accused of hanging two mine employees on a front-end loader in a case that ignited debate about alleged abuses by investors from the Asian country.
Tension is rising between workers' unions and Chinese employers in Zimbabwe over alleged unfair labour practices by companies from the Asian country amid warnings that …
Labor Unrest In S. African Mines Spreads In South Africa, thousands of mineworkers have embarked on industrial action that began with a deadly pay strike by platinum workers. They've agreed a wage ...
Zimbabwe has been a member of the ILO since 1980. Since then, the ILO has been actively engaged with constituents in the country to promote rights at work, encourage decent employment opportunities, …
Anjin Investment, a Chinese-Zimbabwean joint venture with Zimbabwe army 's Defence Industries (ZDI ) was accused of breaking labour laws, and committing human rights abuses that the Zimbabwe government turned a blind eye to, regardless of the many reports by human rights watch groups (Farineau, 2013).The company profited …
Chinese diplomats are embroiled in a vicious war of words with Zimbabwe's labour unions over allegations that businesspeople from the Asian country are abusing their local employees.
THE MINING INDUSTRY IN ZIMBABWE: LABOUR, CAPITAL … Zimbabwe's birth (Mining in Zimbabwe, 1981, p. 25). The nation's inde pendence was won through popular struggle but the transformation of the state mechanism into a socialist structure was significantly weakened by the conjuncture of class forces an political structures evident …
USAID (2014) notes that Zimbabwe needed to embrace globalisation as a solution to its troubled economic and labour market challenges advising that globalisation is unavoidable, and resisting it through unfriendly labour laws and internal policieswould only lead to firms moving their business to other countries with better policies.The ...
The mining sector in South Africa, a cornerstone of the economy, is as much shaped by its labor relations and employment law dynamics as by its mineral wealth. In this industry, understanding and navigating the complex landscape of labor relations, including collective bargaining, strikes and compli
Ministry of Mines and Mining Development, Zimbabwe Mining Development Corporation, Minerals Marketing Corporation of Zimbabwe, Environmental Management Agency, Zimbabwe National Water Authority ... Instead thew workers are represented by workers committed which are highly vulnerable during times of unrest. Regarding the …
The Great Dyke platinum grades are generally lower than those in South Africa's mines. Zimbabwe has enor- mous resources of coal, enough for many thousands of years, but most is of poor quality. Future hopes are currently focused principally on diamonds. Following on the opening of the River Ranch mine near the South African …
Tension is rising between workers' unions and Chinese employers in Zimbabwe over alleged unfair labour practices by companies from the Asian country …
1980. However, public sector labour law in Zimbabwe seems to have developed on a somewhat different track than private sector law. With the advent of Labour Relations Act, 1985, a new ball game came into existence, in particular for the private sector. Zimbabwe has a dual labour system. Workers in the Private Sector and State owned enterprises are
In October last year, China's embassy in Harare clashed with the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions (ZCTU) after the country's biggest labour organisation …
The labour unrest in South African platinum mines is threatening to spill over into the gold sector. Mr Kaguru said the crisis, if not properly handled and allowed to continue spreading, could end ...
Chinhema said a majority of workers were facing income and employment insecurity. "Majority of mine workers in Zimbabwe are working on short-term fixed …
African Labour and the 1940s The 1940s was a decade of labour struggle throughout colonial Africa and indeed the entire colonial world.6 The 1945 railway workers' strike and the 1948 general strike in colonial Zimbabwe (henceforth Southern Rhodesia) thus occurred in the context of an almost world-wide labour militancy in the colonies.
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Source: Zimbabwe Teachers to Strike Over Pay as Labour Unrest Spreads – VOA Teachers have over the years complained of being overworked and underpaid. (Photo: ZIMTA) HARARE (Reuters) – Zimbabwean teachers will go on strike to demand an increase in salaries and allowances when schools reopen next month for the …
Workers at Odzi Resources Zimbabwe's gold mine in the Mutare district accuse managers of violence and say operations often breach local laws. They say they …
Home News Global union denounces violence against workers at Chinese-owned mine in Zimbabwe. News. ... In a letter addressed to Chinese investors, it is indicated that the unionists, who belong to the Zimbabwe Diamond and Allied Minerals Workers Union (ZDAMWU), were subjected to intimidation and harassment, including …
"Children in Zimbabwe are subjected to the worst forms of child labour, including in commercial sexual exploitation, sometimes as a result of human trafficking. Children also experience forced labour in mines and on farms. Children also engage in child labour in agriculture, including in the harvesting of sugarcane and tobacco."
A gang of workers fully clad in safety clothing comprising of helmets, gloves and boots wait to go down the mine shaft at Nigel West Mine in Filabusi, Matabeleland …
"Mine workers are kindly requesting for a national labour inspection across all mines in Zimbabwe big and small, particularly Chinese owned mines," reads the ZIDAMWU letter. "Mine workers have …
TENSION is rising between workers' unions and Chinese employers in Zimbabwe over alleged unfair labour practices by companies from the Asian country amid warnings that the situation could escalate to violent confrontation. ... So bad is the situation that one of the largest labour unions in Zimbabwe's mining sector has since written to …
Labour Act Chapter 28:01. Commenced on 15 December 1985 [This is the version of this document at 31 December 2016 and includes any amendments published up to 31 December 2017.] [Note: This version of the Act was revised and consolidated by the Law Development Commission of Zimbabwe] AN ACT to declare and define the …
