Dave Price is a development fitter and regional branch secretary for the National Union of Mineworkers.
Shop stewards from the giant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) have been killed or threatened.
Almost half of South Africa's mineworkers are said to be infected with the HIV virus.
The National Union of Mineworkers is a close ally of the country's ruling African National Congress.
In 1987 mineworkers chanted during the biggest strike in the history of South African mining.
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Tom Gay, from the Union of Democratic Mineworkers, called the situation "absolutely atrocious".
Frans Baleni, head of the dominant National Union for Mineworkers, said Monday that members were under siege.
The leader of the mineworkers, Cyril Ramaphosa, said "we could feel the power surging in our veins".
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The National Union of Mineworkers said it was too early to speculate on the future of the mine.
Last year a mineworkers' strike forced ARM to halt production at the Modikwa platinum mine for 24 days.
Mr Scargill led a year-long strike of pit workers in 1984-5 as president of the National Union of Mineworkers.
And mass lay-offs then meant that ex-mineworkers were left facing a jobless future.
Cyril Ramaphosa, once boss of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), is often cited as a case in point.
Chris Kitchen, secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, the representative body for U.K. coal miners, on Monday said Mrs.
Harold Macmillan once remarked that no sensible man directly challenged the National Union of Mineworkers or the Brigade of Guards.
Ex-miners' union president Arthur Scargill has reached an out-of-court settlement with the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) over expense claims.
Her achievements included developing a treatment for emphysema, a breakthrough for which she was lauded by the National Union of Mineworkers.
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It had agreed to take back the miners if they returned to work by Tuesday, the National Union of Mineworkers said.
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National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) spokesman Lesiba Seshoka told Reuters the official had been killed "execution style" but gave no further details.
Workers also unfurled a "National Union of Mineworkers" banner, evoking memories of the painful yearlong coal miners' strike during the Thatcher years.
The newer Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union also denied any blame.
Wayne Thomas, the general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in Wales said the union's staff were given the day off on Wednesday.
He is currently general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, one of the better-organised trade unions, which bred Cyril Ramaphosa, Mr Motlanthe's predecessor.
Analysts cite reports that the National Union of Mineworkers has called upon its members at the state-owned energy provider Eskom to prepare for a strike.
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The following spring the National Union of Mineworkers called a nationwide strike, despite the failure of their firebrand president, Arthur Scargill, to ballot his members.
The researchers collected the water as mineworkers drilled new exploratory holes.
The president of the mineworkers union, James Motlatsi, was outraged that a major mining deal executed by a black South African would be for marginal mines.
As employment declined and mining families struggled in the 1960s, mineworkers launched widespread protest demonstrations and traveled to Washington to lobby for federal support of UMW hospitals.
But the union saw a breakaway faction emerge during the industrial dispute, when miners in Nottinghamshire voted by three-quarters to oppose the strike and form the breakaway Union of Democratic Mineworkers.
Wayne Thomas, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers South Wales Area, said he would like to see Gleision included because of its significance but added a compromise may be possible.
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