{"id":13897,"date":"2012-08-25T15:13:49","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T13:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/lonmin-says-more-than-half-of-workers-back-at-some-shafts\/"},"modified":"2012-08-25T15:13:49","modified_gmt":"2012-08-25T13:13:49","slug":"lonmin-says-more-than-half-of-workers-back-at-some-shafts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/lonmin-says-more-than-half-of-workers-back-at-some-shafts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lonmin says more than half of workers back at some shafts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Aug 25 (Reuters) &#8211; More than half of the<br \/>\nworkers at some of Lonmin&#8217;s South African Marikana mine<br \/>\nshafts reported for work on Saturday, the company said, as it<br \/>\nseeks to resume full operations in the wake of protests in which<br \/>\n44 people were killed last week.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Eastern shafts are working this weekend and we have 57<br \/>\npercent attendance across these shafts. The rest of the mine is<br \/>\nclosed as this is their off-weekend,&#8221; Lonmin, which accounts for<br \/>\nabout 12 percent of global platinum output, said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>About 23 percent of its 28,000-strong workforce turned up<br \/>\nfor shifts on Friday, which fell short of the 80 percent that<br \/>\nthe Solidarity union of highly skilled workers says is required<br \/>\nto extract ore from the ground.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lonmin froze mining operations earlier this month after an<br \/>\nillegal strike escalated into violence and paralysed operations<br \/>\nat the world&#8217;s third-biggest platinum producer, driving the<br \/>\nprice of the white metal around 10 percent higher.<\/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>JOHANNESBURG Aug 25 (Reuters) &#8211; More than half of the workers at some of Lonmin&#8217;s South African Marikana mine shafts reported for work on Saturday, the company said, as it seeks to resume full operations in the wake of protests in which 44 people were killed last week. &#8220;Eastern shafts are working this weekend and [&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-13897","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\/13897","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=13897"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13897\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13897"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13897"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13897"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}