{"id":14022,"date":"2012-08-29T15:24:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-29T13:24:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/s-africa-seeks-mine-peace-wage-deal-may-be-elusive\/"},"modified":"2012-08-29T15:24:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-29T13:24:06","slug":"s-africa-seeks-mine-peace-wage-deal-may-be-elusive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-seeks-mine-peace-wage-deal-may-be-elusive\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa seeks mine peace, wage deal may be elusive"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Striking workers&#8217; resolve stiffened by killings<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* NUM having trouble using its weight<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin can sack workers but has held off<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Aug 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Feuding South<br \/>\nAfrican unions, platinum producer Lonmin and government<br \/>\nofficials tried on Wednesday to broker a peace accord at a mine<br \/>\nwhere 44 people were killed in the worst such violence since the<br \/>\nend of apartheid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They also want to use the meeting to start wage talks over<br \/>\nthe dispute that has paralysed production at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana<br \/>\nmine and raised worries of unrest spreading through the<br \/>\ncountry&#8217;s platinum sector, further shaking the economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bringing all the parties together to secure a symbolic peace<br \/>\ndeal could prove successful, but the strike at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana<br \/>\nmine, northwest of Johannesburg, may be far tougher to resolve.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If there is no 12,500 rand ($1,500) a month, no workers<br \/>\nwill be going back,&#8221; Zolisa Bodlani, a representative for the<br \/>\nstriking workers, said ahead of the meeting.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Strikers say they have sacrificed too much to settle for<br \/>\nless than their demands. Lonmin said it had an average 7.7<br \/>\npercent attendance across all shafts on Wednesday morning.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Striking workers&#8217; resolve stiffened by killings * NUM having trouble using its weight * Lonmin can sack workers but has held off By Agnieszka Flak RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Aug 29 (Reuters) &#8211; Feuding South African unions, platinum producer Lonmin and government officials tried on Wednesday to broker a peace accord at a mine where [&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-14022","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\/14022","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=14022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14022\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}