{"id":14233,"date":"2012-09-04T03:39:35","date_gmt":"2012-09-04T01:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-as-mine-unrest-spreads\/"},"modified":"2012-09-04T03:39:35","modified_gmt":"2012-09-04T01:39:35","slug":"s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-as-mine-unrest-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-as-mine-unrest-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa police fire tear gas as mine unrest spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Four injured in unrest at Gold One mine &#8220;shoot-out&#8221;<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Government trying to broker labour peace at Lonmin<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Striking Marikana miners want more than double present pay<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Cropley<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 3 (Reuters) &#8211; South African police fired<br \/>\ntear gas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a<br \/>\ngold mine near Johannesburg on Monday, the latest outbreak in a<br \/>\nwave of labour militancy spreading from platinum mining into<br \/>\nother parts of the sector.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unrest occurred less than three weeks after police shot<br \/>\ndead 34 striking miners at Lonmin&#8217;s  Marikana<br \/>\nmine, the deadliest security incident since the end of<br \/>\napartheid, or white minority rule, in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Marikana shooting, which local media dubbed a massacre,<br \/>\nshocked South Africa and marred the image of Africa&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\neconomy as the full extent of a breakdown in labour relations in<br \/>\nthe mining sector became apparent. World platinum prices have<br \/>\nrisen nearly 10 percent since the shooting.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In Monday&#8217;s incident, mine owner Gold One International Ltd<br \/>\n said about 60 workers at its Modder East site went on a<br \/>\nwildcat strike, blocking half the company&#8217;s employees from<br \/>\nreporting for their shifts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The group, however, refused to disperse. The South African<br \/>\nPolice Service had to use tear gas and rubber bullets to<br \/>\ndisperse the group,&#8221; it said in a statement.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Four injured in unrest at Gold One mine &#8220;shoot-out&#8221; * Government trying to broker labour peace at Lonmin * Striking Marikana miners want more than double present pay By Ed Cropley JOHANNESBURG, Sept 3 (Reuters) &#8211; South African police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near [&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-14233","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\/14233","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=14233"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14233\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}