Hello miners, relatives and friends, Through the news and the internet we have heard about the terrible accident at your gold mine in Kamituga, South Kivu province. We are deeply shocked by this tragedy which has left over 50 people dead. Our thoughts are with you and your relatives. But we also feel anger and indignation that such an accident is happening today.
,I am Dr Rekha,Indian citizen.i came here on regular request of Ritesh shah,he is Dyms at HJ hospital.i appointed as gynecologist at HJ.some month passes smoothly.after I found single women are called here,if some one want to call known or some family members ,they refused.they start directly and indirectly torture on them.only females who follow their orders,they allow them them to do their job, otherwise they start to torture them and they left the job.they terminate mostly females to put pressure on them.if female ready to obey them,she was physically abused by doctors and higher management, even some girls are supplied outside.some female staff went to their embassy but they don't get response as this people manipulate the higher authority by bribe or power.
FOSYCO has its central Headquarters in the three mining Provinces Katanga, Kasai-Oriental and South-Kivu. It may be emphasized, that the headquarters of all companies normaly are localized in the capital Kinshasa. In general commit all mining companies their employees to stay on site. Some Companies grants modest bonuses, which in no way compensated the work and availability of the employees at the work places compared with the social legislation.
Dear families and mates,
We learned about the bad luck in the Macalder mines through the Kenyan Peasants League. With our thoughts we are with the trapped and missing colleagues who are fighting for their lives, but also with the relatives of the killed buddies and their friends.
Two miners have been confirmed dead and four others are still missing in Macalder Mines in Nyatike Migori County after the quarry collapsed due to heavy rains that is pounding the area.
According to reports in one of the local dailies the Star, the bodies of the dead miners were pulled 24 hours after the accident raising issues regarding disaster response when such cases occur.
Employees of the Langer Heinrich Uranium (LHU) mine have expressed dissatisfaction with how negotiations were handled when the majority of them were laid off recently when the mine was mothballed.
Trade unions in South Africa are calling for an urgent review of safety after almost 1,000 miners were trapped underground for more than 24-hours at the Sibanye-Stillwater Beatrix gold mine in Free State.
All the 955 miners had been brought to the surface by around 6am on Friday 2 February after being stuck down the mine following a storm on the night of Wednesday 31 January that caused a power outage.
Hundreds of women in western Zimbabwe who have waged a week-long sit-in at Hwange Colliery Co. Ltd. (HCCL), demanding unpaid wages for their husbands who labor in the company’s coal mines, say they are set to march to tourist-packed Victoria Falls. There, says the women’s spokesperson, Thokozile Ncube, “we will tell the world everything about the company and how our government has failed us.”
To the striking miners of the Kusasalethu gold mine
the dismissal of a union leader of the militant trade union AMCU, as well as the attempt to declare your strike illegal, shows very clearly how the international mining companies want to assert their interests against the miners. He has my full support and solidarity and I will do everything in my power to make your struggle known worldwide.
From Germany there is an increased interest in Kenya. This is no coincidence. At the latest in 2012, international corporations were attracted to the deposits of rare earths in Kenya. According to experts, e.g. the niobium deposit in southeast Kenya is the sixth largest in the world. The exploitation of the entire reserves would make Kenya a major supplier of this rare metal.