‘Igneous’ means fire from below: the tumultuous history of the National Union of Mineworkers on the South African platinum mines

T. Dunbar Moodie

Review of African Political Economy, 2015, vol. 42, issue 146, 561-576

Abstract: From the time Impala dismissed its entire workforce in 1986 up to and well beyond the Marikana massacre, the National Union of Mineworkers has struggled to organise the platinum mines of the Bushveld Igneous Complex. This article focuses on two case studies that highlight the fundamental importance of informal networks for organising mine workers. While the union now seems seriously at risk, it has never had an easy time in Rustenburg. Worker committees are not a new phenomenon there. Nor is insurgency. Mineworkers in South Africa, like mineworkers worldwide, have never been passive recipients of direction from above.

Date: 2015
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DOI: 10.1080/03056244.2015.1088432

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