{"id":14261,"date":"2012-09-05T03:41:59","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T01:41:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africas-gold-fields-closer-to-ending-strike\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T03:41:59","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T01:41:59","slug":"s-africas-gold-fields-closer-to-ending-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africas-gold-fields-closer-to-ending-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa&#8217;s Gold Fields closer to ending strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, Sept 4<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; South African bullion miner<br \/>\nGold Fields said on Tuesday that trade union leadership<br \/>\nintervention in a wildcat strike made a return to production<br \/>\nmore likely.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>About 12,000 workers have been on strike at the east section<br \/>\nof its KDC mine in South Africa for almost a week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spokesperson Sven Lunsche said the company was losing 1,650<br \/>\nounces of production a day and it had until Monday used<br \/>\nstockpiles, it was now two days that the stay away had impacted<br \/>\ndirectly on production.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Unlike the violent strikes that have tainted the South<br \/>\nAfrican platinum industry, Gold Fields believes worker<br \/>\ndiscontent stems from an internal dispute within the local<br \/>\nbranch leaders of the NUM and its members.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>National Union of Mineworkers president Senzeni Zokwana<br \/>\naddressed a mass meeting at the mine on Tuesday and has agreed<br \/>\nto bring the branch leaders and disgruntled members face to face<br \/>\non Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is positive development that could see the workers<br \/>\nreturning to duty soon,&#8221; said Lunsche.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president&#8217;s intervention has made a return to<br \/>\nproduction more likely.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Shares of Gold Fields have shed 6.56 percent in the last<br \/>\nfive days, which is in line with the 6.34 percent fall in the<br \/>\nJSE&#8217;s Gold Mining Index.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas, editing by William Hardy)<\/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, Sept 4 (Reuters) &#8211; South African bullion miner Gold Fields said on Tuesday that trade union leadership intervention in a wildcat strike made a return to production more likely. About 12,000 workers have been on strike at the east section of its KDC mine in South Africa for almost a week. Spokesperson Sven Lunsche [&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-14261","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\/14261","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=14261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}