{"id":13782,"date":"2012-08-22T15:06:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-22T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/unrest-spreads-in-violence-hit-s-africa-mining-belt\/"},"modified":"2012-08-22T15:06:14","modified_gmt":"2012-08-22T13:06:14","slug":"unrest-spreads-in-violence-hit-s-africa-mining-belt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/unrest-spreads-in-violence-hit-s-africa-mining-belt\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrest spreads in violence-hit S.Africa mining belt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Labour troubles reported at Amplats and RBPlats<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mine turmoil raises worries about investing in S.Africa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rights group urges govt to address social problems<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Aug 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Labour unrest<br \/>\nin South Africa&#8217;s platinum belt spread on Wednesday, raising<br \/>\nconcerns that anger over low wages and poor living conditions<br \/>\ncould generate fresh violence after 34 striking miners were shot<br \/>\ndead by police last week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The strike that started last week at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine<br \/>\nhas pushed up platinum prices and stoked worries about investing<br \/>\nin Africa&#8217;s biggest economy, where chronic unemployment and<br \/>\nmassive income disparity threaten social stability.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s top platinum producer, Anglo American Platinum<br \/>\n, said on Wednesday it had received a demand for a pay<br \/>\nincrease from its South African workers, while a trade union<br \/>\nsaid miners at Royal Bafokeng Platinum&#8217;s Rasimone site<br \/>\nwere blocked from reporting to work by colleagues.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The price of platinum leapt to its highest since early May<br \/>\non Wednesday, driven by concern about supply from South Africa,<br \/>\nwhich holds 80 percent of the known reserves of the metal, which<br \/>\nis used in jewellery and for catalytic converters in cars.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spot platinum rose by as much as 1.5 percent to touch<br \/>\n$1,524.49 an ounce, trading at $1,521.75 by 0841 GMT.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Labour troubles reported at Amplats and RBPlats * Mine turmoil raises worries about investing in S.Africa * Rights group urges govt to address social problems By Ed Stoddard RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Aug 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Labour unrest in South Africa&#8217;s platinum belt spread on Wednesday, raising concerns that anger over low wages and poor [&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-13782","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\/13782","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=13782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13782\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}