{"id":13838,"date":"2012-08-23T15:09:33","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T13:09:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/rpt-squalor-surrounds-s-africas-platinum-treasure-chest\/"},"modified":"2012-08-23T15:09:33","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T13:09:33","slug":"rpt-squalor-surrounds-s-africas-platinum-treasure-chest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/rpt-squalor-surrounds-s-africas-platinum-treasure-chest\/","title":{"rendered":"RPT-Squalor surrounds S. Africa&#8217;s platinum treasure chest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Miners, families live in poverty around mines<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pay not enough to make ends meet, miners say<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Workers face heat, dust, danger underground<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Peroshni Govender<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Aug 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Children play and<br \/>\ndogs and chickens forage near sewage spilling from pit latrines<br \/>\nin the shadow of Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine in South Africa which<br \/>\nextracts the platinum used to make jewellery and auto parts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ramshackle settlements cluster around this mine operated by<br \/>\nthe world no. 3 platinum producer and around others in the North<br \/>\nWest Province, the world&#8217;s prime platinum mining region.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is no way to live or grow children. Fifty people share<br \/>\none toilet. We don&#8217;t have water,&#8221; said a woman who identified<br \/>\nherself as Pinky, the wife of a striking rock drill operator at<br \/>\nMarikana who shares a one-room tin box with her husband and two<br \/>\nchildren.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The mine and its squalid settlement was the scene of labour<br \/>\nviolence last week which killed 40 miners, two police and two<br \/>\nsecurity guards, the deadliest security incident in South Africa<br \/>\nsince the end of white minority rule 18 years ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A report this week by the Bench Marks Foundation, a<br \/>\nchurch-linked organisation that monitors corporate<br \/>\nresponsibility, found that living conditions for South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nblack miners on the platinum belt were the worst in the country.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Miners, families live in poverty around mines * Pay not enough to make ends meet, miners say * Workers face heat, dust, danger underground By Peroshni Govender MARIKANA, South Africa, Aug 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Children play and dogs and chickens forage near sewage spilling from pit latrines in the shadow of Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine [&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-13838","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\/13838","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=13838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}