{"id":12689,"date":"2012-07-24T01:19:46","date_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/07\/update-2-s-africa-platinum-miners-face-more-labour-militancy\/"},"modified":"2012-07-24T01:19:46","modified_gmt":"2012-07-23T23:19:46","slug":"update-2-s-africa-platinum-miners-face-more-labour-militancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-s-africa-platinum-miners-face-more-labour-militancy\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-S.Africa platinum miners face more labour militancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats signals to close loss-making shafts<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lowers output target to 2.4\/2.5 mln oz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Says production will remain at same level for 3 yrs<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Aquarius sees &#8220;winter of labour discontent&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Aquarius, Amplats shares drop<\/p>\n<p> (Recasts, writes through)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas and Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, July 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Anglo American Platinum<br \/>\n(Amplats), the world&#8217;s top platinum producer, signaled<br \/>\non Monday it plans to trim loss-making shafts as producers of<br \/>\nthe metal grapple with depressed prices and a rise in union<br \/>\nmilitancy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amplats, an Anglo American unit which unveiled<br \/>\ninterim results that as expected showed an almost 80 percent<br \/>\nfall in earnings, confirmed it experienced a brief strike last<br \/>\nweek around its Rustenburg operations as inter-union rivalry<br \/>\nspreads through the platinum belt.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Acting Chief Executive Bongani Nqwababa told Reuters the<br \/>\nstrike was limited and was related to recruiting, but said<br \/>\nAmplats did not yet recognize the upstart Association of<br \/>\nMineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) which is locked in a<br \/>\nturf war with the dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Amplats signals to close loss-making shafts * Lowers output target to 2.4\/2.5 mln oz * Says production will remain at same level for 3 yrs * Aquarius sees &#8220;winter of labour discontent&#8221; * Aquarius, Amplats shares drop (Recasts, writes through) By Sherilee Lakmidas and Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, July 23 (Reuters) &#8211; Anglo American Platinum [&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-12689","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\/12689","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=12689"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12689\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}