{"id":10172,"date":"2012-04-22T04:23:28","date_gmt":"2012-04-22T02:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/04\/two-killed-in-fight-at-s-africa-gold-mine-police\/"},"modified":"2012-04-22T04:23:28","modified_gmt":"2012-04-22T02:23:28","slug":"two-killed-in-fight-at-s-africa-gold-mine-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/two-killed-in-fight-at-s-africa-gold-mine-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Two killed in fight at S.Africa gold mine-police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, April 21<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Two men were killed<br \/>\novernight in a fight involving suspected illegal miners at<br \/>\nHarmony Gold&#8217;s Tshepong mine in South Africa&#8217;s Free<br \/>\nState province, a police spokesman said on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Harmony spokeswoman Marian can der Walt said the incident<br \/>\nhad not halted operations at the mine, the biggest earner of the<br \/>\ncompany that is the country&#8217;s third largest gold producer.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Company data showed Tshepong produced 207,950 ounces of gold<br \/>\nin the 2011 financial year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We discovered two male bodies with stab wounds this morning<br \/>\nat Tshepong mine in Welkom,&#8221; police spokesman Stephen Thakeng<br \/>\nsaid. &#8220;It seems they were killed last night in a fight among<br \/>\nsuspected illegal miners.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The incident was likely to add to growing concern about the<br \/>\npresence of unlicensed miners in the mines of South Africa, the<br \/>\ncontinent&#8217;s biggest gold and platinum producer.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Up to 20 illegal miners were killed last month by a rock<br \/>\nfall at an abandoned mine elsewhere in South Africa.<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Tiisetso Motsoeneng; Editing by Tim Pearce)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG, April 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Two men were killed overnight in a fight involving suspected illegal miners at Harmony Gold&#8217;s Tshepong mine in South Africa&#8217;s Free State province, a police spokesman said on Saturday. Harmony spokeswoman Marian can der Walt said the incident had not halted operations at the mine, the biggest earner of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-10172","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}