{"id":14062,"date":"2012-08-30T15:27:43","date_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:27:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/factbox-a-look-at-lonmin-talks-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-08-30T15:27:43","modified_gmt":"2012-08-30T13:27:43","slug":"factbox-a-look-at-lonmin-talks-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-a-look-at-lonmin-talks-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-A look at Lonmin talks in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocatio\/spann\">Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Here is a look at the negotiations<br \/>\nbetween South African company Lonmin and the unions<br \/>\nafter 44 people died in violence reminiscent of the apartheid<br \/>\nregime:<span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Fewer than 10 percent the 28,000 workforce have shown up<br \/>\nin the last few days, down from the 33 percent that Lonmin said<br \/>\nturned up the week before, at the Marikana mine, about 100 km<br \/>\n(60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg and owned by the world&#8217;s<br \/>\nthird largest platinum producer.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Miners have asked for 12,500 rand ($1,500) a month. The<br \/>\n3,000 strikers, who are mostly rock driller operators, are paid<br \/>\nabout 9,800 rand with an average monthly bonus of 1,500 rand,<br \/>\nthe company says. Miners who say they are earning up to 5,000<br \/>\nrand, went on strike over demands for higher pay.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Forty-four people have been killed altogether in the<br \/>\ndispute &#8211; 34 on Aug. 16 by police &#8211; in what has been dubbed the<br \/>\n&#8216;Marikana Massacre&#8217;. Over 70 miners were injured and around 270<br \/>\nminers have been arrested.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* The labour ministry is facilitating the talks between<br \/>\nLonmin and the unions, including the National Union of<br \/>\nMineworkers (NUM) and the smaller rival Association of<br \/>\nMineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU). Bishop Jo Seoka from<br \/>\nthe South African Council of Churches is mediating.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Added to the mix is the conflict between AMCU, which has<br \/>\nbeen trying to recruit new members, and the established NUM. Ten<br \/>\nof the 44 people killed were in clashes between strikers from<br \/>\nthe rival unions at Marikana.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Sources: Reuters\/AllAfrica.com<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>($1 = 8.4218 South African rand)<br \/>\n (Reporting by David Cutler, London Editorial Reference Unit<br \/>\n Editing by Mark Potter)<\/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>Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; Here is a look at the negotiations between South African company Lonmin and the unions after 44 people died in violence reminiscent of the apartheid regime: * Fewer than 10 percent the 28,000 workforce have shown up in the last few days, down from the 33 percent that Lonmin said turned [&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-14062","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\/14062","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=14062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}