{"id":13430,"date":"2012-08-13T02:29:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:29:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-two-killed-at-lonmin-s-africa-mine-in-union-clash\/"},"modified":"2012-08-13T02:29:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T00:29:44","slug":"update-1-two-killed-at-lonmin-s-africa-mine-in-union-clash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-two-killed-at-lonmin-s-africa-mine-in-union-clash\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Two killed at Lonmin S.Africa mine in union clash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Union turf war is rocking S.African platinum sector<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin is world no. 3 producer of precious metal<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Its Western Platinum operation working at reduced capacity<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Latest flare-up signals rivalry is spreading<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Aug 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Two security guards were<br \/>\nhacked to death at a South African mine operated by the world&#8217;s<br \/>\nnumber three platinum producer Lonmin  on Sunday<br \/>\nin new violence between rival unions, company officials said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lonmin officials said the clashes were between the dominant<br \/>\nNational Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and the upstart Association<br \/>\nof Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). Their turf war for<br \/>\nmembers shut the world&#8217;s largest platinum mine run by Impala<br \/>\nPlatinum for 6 weeks earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The latest flare-up began on Friday with an illegal strike<br \/>\nby 3,000 rock drill operators at Lonmin&#8217;s Western Platinum<br \/>\noperations 100 kms (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg,<br \/>\nmirroring previous incidents when AMCU has sought to recruit NUM<br \/>\nmembers.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Union turf war is rocking S.African platinum sector * Lonmin is world no. 3 producer of precious metal * Its Western Platinum operation working at reduced capacity * Latest flare-up signals rivalry is spreading By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Aug 12 (Reuters) &#8211; Two security guards were hacked to death at a South African mine [&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-13430","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\/13430","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=13430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13430\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}