{"id":13699,"date":"2012-08-21T03:02:42","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T01:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/world-bank-unit-says-concerned-with-safrican-mine-violence\/"},"modified":"2012-08-21T03:02:42","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T01:02:42","slug":"world-bank-unit-says-concerned-with-safrican-mine-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/world-bank-unit-says-concerned-with-safrican-mine-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"World Bank unit says concerned with SAfrican mine violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">WASHINGTON<\/span> Aug 20 (Reuters) &#8211; The International Finance<br \/>\nCorp, the World Bank&#8217;s private investment arm, said on Monday it<br \/>\nwas &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; with violence at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana<br \/>\nplatinum mine in South Africa and urged parties to settle their<br \/>\ndifferences through negotiation.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>IFC holds a 0.61 percent equity stake in London-based Lonmin<br \/>\nPlc through an investment made in 2006. Lonmin accounts for 12<br \/>\npercent of global platinum output.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Forty-four people have been killed at the Marikana mine,<br \/>\nincluding more than 30 striking miners who were shot dead during<br \/>\na confrontation with police last week. The shooting was one of<br \/>\nthe bloodiest police actions seen since the end of apartheid in<br \/>\n1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The issues are serious and IFC encourages all parties to<br \/>\nresolve the dispute through constructive dialogue and<br \/>\nnegotiation,&#8221; IFC said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON Aug 20 (Reuters) &#8211; The International Finance Corp, the World Bank&#8217;s private investment arm, said on Monday it was &#8220;deeply concerned&#8221; with violence at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana platinum mine in South Africa and urged parties to settle their differences through negotiation. IFC holds a 0.61 percent equity stake in London-based Lonmin Plc through an investment [&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-13699","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\/13699","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=13699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13699\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}