{"id":13722,"date":"2012-08-21T15:04:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-lonmin-fears-sackings-could-re-ignite-s-africa-violence\/"},"modified":"2012-08-21T15:04:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-21T13:04:44","slug":"update-1-lonmin-fears-sackings-could-re-ignite-s-africa-violence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-lonmin-fears-sackings-could-re-ignite-s-africa-violence\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Lonmin fears sackings could re-ignite S. Africa violence"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* MPs hold memorial service for miners<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Not enough workers at posts to resume ore production<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Deadly precedent set in previous sackings<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Aug 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum producer Lonmin<br \/>\nfears that sacking 3,000 striking South African mine workers,<br \/>\nwho face a Tuesday deadline to report back to their posts, could<br \/>\nlead to more violence after police last week shot dead 34 miners<br \/>\nin scenes reminiscent of apartheid bloodshed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most of the strikers stayed off the job, saying they had<br \/>\nsacrificed too much to return. Police helicopters hovered over<br \/>\nLonmin&#8217;s  Marikana mine, about 100 km (60 miles)<br \/>\nnorthwest of  Johannesburg, while heavily armed officers<br \/>\npatrolled the property.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s third-biggest platinum producer Lonmin said<br \/>\nabout a third of its 28,000 workers at the Marikana mine had<br \/>\nreturned to work &#8211; not enough to extract ore.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of workers remained off the job due in part to<br \/>\nlingering safety concerns and uncertainty if there would<br \/>\nanything for them to do since the 3,000 strikers were mostly<br \/>\nrock drill operators who are at the front line of breaking up<br \/>\nthe masses of underground stone<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Crowds of workers, watched closely by police, gathered near<br \/>\nthe site of the shooting, ignoring the company&#8217;s threat of<br \/>\npunishments that could ultimately lead to job losses.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* MPs hold memorial service for miners * Not enough workers at posts to resume ore production * Deadly precedent set in previous sackings By Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG, Aug 21 (Reuters) &#8211; Platinum producer Lonmin fears that sacking 3,000 striking South African mine workers, who face a Tuesday deadline to report back to their posts, [&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-13722","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\/13722","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=13722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13722\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}