Mining Conditions in De Beers Diamond Company

The purpose of this paper is to expand our boundary of knowledge by exploring some facts and figures related to the “Working Conditions in the De Beers Mining Company”. For this purpose, we have selected six articles from the internet and summarized their and presented their viewpoints regarding our topic.

South Africa's De Beers: The Most Unethical Corporation In The World

According to the article, De Boer has been guilty of facilitating poor working conditions for the miners. They had applied harsh managerial practices in the past leading to poor conditions for the workers. The conduct towards employees is even work, specifically poor black Africans. They had the requirement of cheap labor; hence they announce categories of various taxes, so that farmers would have to work for them to earn some cash in order to pay their taxes. Therefore, they were forced to work for them. The living and working conditions provided to them were in shambles. Miners use to work the whole day living on bread and cold tea living in poor villages. They also were wrongly accused of stealing diamonds and severely punished and beaten. The wage scale is very low and it is very difficult to save because there is never too much money. When miners talk about mine, they describe it as hell. There is first the environment: high humidity and scorching temperatures up to 50 ° c. It's so hot in the pit some people to drink, drink dirty water trapped between the rails and in the troughs for horses. Even with this, the conditions are appalling. But it adds awkward positions in order to work. Some are still bent, others are stuck between two stones in sizes of thirty centimeters or even less. There are still accidents happen unintentionally.

Working Conditions in the coastal diamond mines

According to the article, the black population, which migrated en masse to mining sites used under very poor working conditions and health was the subject of the first government initiatives segregation that years later became institutionalized through the system of Apartheid (1948). The racial classification laws ruled them all spheres of public and private life, sentencing black workforce to reside in slums without civil or political rights. Colonial regulations that supported this social geography facilitated territorial ownership of mining conglomerates consolidating the profile of extractive-exporting country. The labors live in the coal mine, and the conditions are depicted in pictures which are a soar to the eye. No adjective could describe decent living conditions and housing in which the miners lived when they return from work during the nineteenth century.

De Beers and the Global Diamond Industry

This article gives us the picture of the business and operations of De Boer. This article also highlights the importance of social responsibility for De Boer. The author says that De Boer have implemented some practices for society improvement, such as protection against child labor and treating HIV/AIDS patients, but these are more of a marketing schemes for the organization to ...