{"id":13870,"date":"2012-08-24T15:10:52","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-amplats-says-100-workers-return-to-s-africa-mine\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T15:10:52","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T13:10:52","slug":"update-1-amplats-says-100-workers-return-to-s-africa-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-amplats-says-100-workers-return-to-s-africa-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Amplats says 100 workers return to S.Africa mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 24 (Reuters) &#8211; World No. 1 platinum<br \/>\nproducer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said on<br \/>\nFriday 100 workers who had refused to go underground at its<br \/>\nThembelani mine in South Africa had ended their brief stay away<br \/>\nand returned to work.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There had been no immediate threat to production at Amplats<br \/>\nas the mine employs over 4,100 people, but the sector is on<br \/>\ntenterhooks in the wake of a violent strike at Lonmin<br \/>\nthat saw 34 striking miners gunned down by police last week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All employees have now reported for work,&#8221; Amplats said in<br \/>\na statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company also said wage talks between management and six<br \/>\nrepresentatives from among the workers had ended on a &#8220;positive&#8221;<br \/>\nnote, without elaborating.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In another development, junior producer Royal Bafokeng<br \/>\nPlatinum said it had received an undertaking that the<br \/>\n500 employees who participated in an illegal strike earlier this<br \/>\nweek would return.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It said allegations of intimidation would be independently<br \/>\ninvestigated and appropriate action would be taken if required.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG Aug 24 (Reuters) &#8211; World No. 1 platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said on Friday 100 workers who had refused to go underground at its Thembelani mine in South Africa had ended their brief stay away and returned to work. There had been no immediate threat to production at Amplats [&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-13870","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\/13870","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=13870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13870\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}