Mabapa, acknowledged that significant progress has been made on the health and safety fronts in South Africa’s mining industry, which had a record low of 49 accidental deaths in a calendar year in 2022. This was followed by ay, the first calendar month in more than a century in which no South African miner lost their life on the job.
Mabapa would not be drawn on the precise scale of NUM’s expected demands, but said the union’s members would be unlikely to submit any that fell short of the inflation rate, which was running at 7.2% in December and seen as moderating this year. He stated that he expected relations with the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union to remain cordial. For almost a decade the rivalry between the two unions was a major source of violent unrest and instability in the mining sector.
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