{"id":13691,"date":"2012-08-20T15:02:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:02:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-2-lonmin-workers-trickle-back-to-mine-after-44-killed\/"},"modified":"2012-08-20T15:02:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-20T13:02:44","slug":"update-2-lonmin-workers-trickle-back-to-mine-after-44-killed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-lonmin-workers-trickle-back-to-mine-after-44-killed\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Lonmin workers trickle back to mine after 44 killed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* National period of mourning declared<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Employees could be sacked if they do not return to work<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Shares extend steep losses, platinum price at 6-week highs<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Aug 20 (Reuters) &#8211; A quarter of the workforce<br \/>\nreturned on Monday to the Marikana platinum mine where 44 men<br \/>\nwere killed last week in clashes that evoked memories of<br \/>\napartheid-era violence.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mine owner Lonmin  has threatened about<br \/>\n3,000 striking workers with dismissal if they did not show up at<br \/>\nMarikana, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg,<br \/>\nwhere 34 miners armed with spears, machetes and handguns were<br \/>\ngunned down on Thursday in a hail of police fire.<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ten people were killed prior to the police shooting,<br \/>\nincluding a shop steward from the country&#8217;s biggest union, the<br \/>\nNational Union of Mineworkers (NUM), who was hacked to death.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The mayhem was sparked by a spreading battle for membership<br \/>\nbetween the NUM and the upstart Association of Mineworkers and<br \/>\nConstruction Union, which has accused its rival of caring more<br \/>\nabout politics and personal enrichment than workers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Investigators appointed by President Jacob Zuma, who has<br \/>\ndeclared a week of mourning, are expected at the mine.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* National period of mourning declared * Employees could be sacked if they do not return to work * Shares extend steep losses, platinum price at 6-week highs By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Aug 20 (Reuters) &#8211; A quarter of the workforce returned on Monday to the Marikana platinum mine where 44 men were killed last [&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-13691","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\/13691","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=13691"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13691\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13691"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13691"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13691"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}