We denounce the premeditated mass murder of at least 109 miners by the government of South Africa!
The whole world has watched as half-starved and dead miners have been recovered from the Stilfontein mine near Johannesburg. The South African government, namely President Cyril Ramaphosa, state ministries and the police are responsible for this!
On 1 November, immediately after the elections in Georgia, the manganese mines in Chiatura were closed down, while the open-cast mining of various cooperatives was not stopped. Around 3,000 miners and 2,000 metalworkers from the group ‘Georgian Managanese Ltd’ were locked out and asked to accept a 40-60% pay cut, which they rightly refused to do.
aus Georgien, Belarus, Griechenland, dem Kongo und aus Reutlingen
Приветствие шахтерам
Grüße an die Bergleute
Salutations aux travailleurs des mines
Saludos a los mineros
Pozdrowienia dla górników
Madencilere selamlar
greetings to the miners
Sending the congratulation letter for today. "Today, the Orthodox Church celebrates the day of St. Barbara, in our country she is known as the patroness of children.
A little further west, she has a more practical meaning - she is the protector of miners and steelworkers.
Dear friends, we have just learnt of a crime currently being committed by the South African government against thousands of informal miners. It's hard to believe, so here are a few sources. We will of course also organise solidarity from Marikana. Unfortunately, we hear nothing about protests against the state-organised fascist agitation and violence against the migrants.
We, the continental coordinator of mineworkers, hereby protest against the inhumane treatment, bordering on criminality, inflicted on immigrants by the South African Government. This is no less than the odious criminal acts against humanity that are taking place in STILFONTEIN, South Africa, and it is serious.
We, the participants of the Duisburg rally on the "Day against Violence against Women", send you our solidarity greetings and our sisterly sympathy. Your men have climbed into the disused gold mines at the risk of their lives. They wanted to save you and your children from hunger and misery by selling the remaining gold deposits.
We, at the Syndicat national de l'énergie et des minéraux du Maroc, affiliated to the trade union centre : Democratic Confederation of Labour, have learned with great sadness of the abuses and siege to which the miners of Stilfontein who work in the gold mines in South Africa are exposed while they are on sit-in for the sixth week inside the mine, with the resulting deaths and illnesses,
The preparatory group for the establishment of the European coordination of miners is protesting against the actions of the South African government against the more than 4,000 miners who are underground in the mine at Stilfontein. For about five weeks they have been cut off from supplies to their families. It is inhumane that the South African police have blocked the entrances and that anyone who comes out is immediately arrested on charges of illegal gold mining.