{"id":13466,"date":"2012-08-14T02:33:55","date_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:33:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-3-nine-killed-in-s-africa-mine-union-violence\/"},"modified":"2012-08-14T02:33:55","modified_gmt":"2012-08-14T00:33:55","slug":"update-3-nine-killed-in-s-africa-mine-union-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-nine-killed-in-s-africa-mine-union-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Nine killed in S.Africa mine union violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Police, protestor killings brings death toll to 9<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>* Lonmin shares down 1.6 pct in London<\/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 and Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Aug 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Nine people including two<br \/>\npolicemen have been killed in clashes between labour unions at a<br \/>\nSouth African mine operated by world no. 3 platinum producer<br \/>\nLonmin , by far the deadliest spate of violence<br \/>\nin a turf war rocking the sector.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lonmin said the situation was &#8220;volatile&#8221; at its Western<br \/>\nPlatinum mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg. The<br \/>\nplant was operating at reduced capacity and was under heavy<br \/>\npolice guard.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police told Reuters two policemen died after a machete<br \/>\nattack by a mob near the mine. Another officer was badly injured<br \/>\nand police in turn shot dead three protestors.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We came under attack. The suspects took our weapons. A<br \/>\nshootout ensued and during that incident three suspects were<br \/>\nfatally injured,&#8221; spokesman Lindela Mashigo told Reuters.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Police, protestor killings brings death toll to 9 * Platinum sector under siege from union militancy * Lonmin shares down 1.6 pct in London * AMCU says in emergency meeting with Lonmin management By Ed Stoddard and Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG, Aug 13 (Reuters) &#8211; Nine people including two policemen have been killed in clashes [&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-13466","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\/13466","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=13466"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13466\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}