Ed Stoddard
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Workers at South African mine trickle back to work after 44 killed
MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - About a third of the workforce returned on Monday to South Africa's Marikana platinum mine, resuming operations at the site where police shot dead 34...

Insight: Workers to warriors – union war batters South Africa mines
LYDENBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's platinum promise of prosperity has turned into a heap of broken dreams for Vusimuzi Mathosi, one of 2,000 workers laid off by Aquarius...

Insight: Workers to warriors – union war batters South Africa mines
LYDENBURG, South Africa (Reuters) - South Africa's platinum promise of prosperity has turned into a heap of broken dreams for Vusimuzi Mathosi, one of 2,000 workers laid off by Aquarius...

South African policeman dies in mining union clash
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Five people including a police officer have been killed in clashes between unions at a South African mine operated by world no. 3 platinum producer Lonmin, the...

South African policeman dies in mining union clash
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Five people including a police officer have been killed in clashes between unions at a South African mine operated by world no. 3 platinum producer Lonmin, the...

Two killed at Lonmin South Africa mine in union clash
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two security guards were hacked to death at a South African mine operated by the world's number three platinum producer Lonmin on Sunday in new violence between...

Two killed at Lonmin South Africa mine in union clash
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Two security guards were hacked to death at a South African mine operated by the world's number three platinum producer Lonmin on Sunday in new violence between...

Food inflation entrenched in southern Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Food inflation is taking hold in southern Africa, putting pressure on some state budgets and making it hard for central banks to loosen monetary policy in the...

Food inflation entrenched in southern Africa
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Food inflation is taking hold in southern Africa, putting pressure on some state budgets and making it hard for central banks to loosen monetary policy in the...

Worthy Cassava transformed into lucrative cash crop
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - The seeds of prosperity for some rural Africans may lie in a crop that has sustained them with calories for centuries but has generated virtually no wealth...
