{"id":13672,"date":"2012-08-20T03:00:04","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T01:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/striking-lonmin-workers-face-monday-deadline-to-return\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T03:00:04","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T01:00:04","slug":"striking-lonmin-workers-face-monday-deadline-to-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/striking-lonmin-workers-face-monday-deadline-to-return\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking Lonmin workers face Monday deadline to return"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Employees could be sacked if they do not report for duty<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Union boss not sure if workers will return<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* South Africa to hold inquiry into killings<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Aug 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking workers at the<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s No. 3 platinum producer Lonmin , where<br \/>\n44 people have been killed in a week of violence, face possible<br \/>\ndismissal if they do not return to work on Monday, a company<br \/>\nspokeswoman said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Last week, 34 people were gunned down by police in a hail of<br \/>\nbullets from automatic weapons when authorities moved in against<br \/>\n3,000 striking workers armed with machetes, spears and handguns<br \/>\nwho were camped on a hill at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine, about 100<br \/>\nkm (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg..<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The final ultimatum has been extended to Monday, the 20th<br \/>\nfollowing Thursday&#8217;s events,&#8221; spokeswoman Gillian Findlay said<br \/>\non Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Employees may be dismissed if they fail to heed the final<br \/>\nultimatum,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>London-based Lonmin accounts for 12 percent of global<br \/>\nplatinum output. It is already struggling with low prices, weak<br \/>\ndemand and may miss its annual production target of 750,000<br \/>\nounces as the quarter to the end of September is typically its<br \/>\nbest.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Employees could be sacked if they do not report for duty * Union boss not sure if workers will return * South Africa to hold inquiry into killings By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Aug 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking workers at the world&#8217;s No. 3 platinum producer Lonmin , where 44 people have been killed in [&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-13672","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\/13672","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=13672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13672\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}