{"id":14290,"date":"2012-09-05T15:46:50","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T13:46:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-strikers-march-at-south-africas-marikana-mine\/"},"modified":"2012-09-05T15:46:50","modified_gmt":"2012-09-05T13:46:50","slug":"update-2-strikers-march-at-south-africas-marikana-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-strikers-march-at-south-africas-marikana-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Strikers march at South Africa&#8217;s Marikana mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Biggest miners&#8217; march since Aug. 16 shootings<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Armed police monitor demonstration<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* March casts shadow over mining &#8220;peace&#8221; talks<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Peroshni Govender<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 5 (Reuters) &#8211; More than 3,000<br \/>\nstriking South African miners marched through streets near<br \/>\nLonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine on Wednesday, the largest protest at the<br \/>\nhot spot since police shot dead 34 of their colleagues last<br \/>\nmonth.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police armed with tear gas and assault rifles deployed<br \/>\narmoured vehicles and helicopters to keep an eye on the<br \/>\nstick-waving protesters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It was the strongest show of police force since the<br \/>\nimmediate aftermath of the Aug. 16 shooting, the bloodiest<br \/>\nsecurity incident since the end of apartheid in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>One man at the front of the column waved a placard reading<br \/>\n&#8220;We want 12,500 or nothing else&#8221;, a reference to the group&#8217;s<br \/>\ndemand for a hike in base pay to 12,500 rand ($1,500) a month,<br \/>\nmore than double their current salary.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The marchers retreated after a two-hour standoff at an<br \/>\nentrance of Lonmin&#8217;s nearby Karee mine and talks between a<br \/>\ndelegation of protesters and management. There was no violence.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Biggest miners&#8217; march since Aug. 16 shootings * Armed police monitor demonstration * March casts shadow over mining &#8220;peace&#8221; talks By Peroshni Govender MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 5 (Reuters) &#8211; More than 3,000 striking South African miners marched through streets near Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine on Wednesday, the largest protest at the hot spot since [&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-14290","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\/14290","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=14290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14290\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}