{"id":13454,"date":"2012-08-13T14:31:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-13T12:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-miner-killed-in-violence-at-s-africas-lonmin\/"},"modified":"2012-08-13T14:31:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-13T12:31:33","slug":"update-1-miner-killed-in-violence-at-s-africas-lonmin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-miner-killed-in-violence-at-s-africas-lonmin\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Miner killed in violence at S.Africa&#8217;s Lonmin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Death toll from inter-union violence rises to three<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Platinum sector under siege from union militancy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AMCU says in emergency meeting with Lonmin management<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Aug 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A worker was killed on<br \/>\nMonday in renewed violence between rival unions at a South<br \/>\nAfrican mine operated by world number three platinum producer<br \/>\nLonmin , the head of the National Union of<br \/>\nMineworkers (NUM) said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Early this morning one of our members was attempting to<br \/>\nreport to duty and he was killed. He was hacked to death,&#8221; NUM<br \/>\nGeneral Secretary Frans Baleni told Reuters. &#8220;Our members are<br \/>\nunder attack.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The killing follows the murder of two security guards on<br \/>\nSunday by an enraged mob that attacked a facility at Lonmin&#8217;s<br \/>\nWestern Platinum operation.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The violence is part of a turf war between the NUM, which<br \/>\nhas long been the labour giant in South African mining, and the<br \/>\nupstart Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union<br \/>\n(AMCU).<\/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 mine,<br \/>\n100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, mirroring previous<br \/>\nincidents when AMCU has tried to recruit NUM members.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Death toll from inter-union violence rises to three * Platinum sector under siege from union militancy * AMCU says in emergency meeting with Lonmin management By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Aug 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A worker was killed on Monday in renewed violence between rival unions at a South African mine operated by world number [&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-13454","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\/13454","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=13454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}