{"id":14456,"date":"2012-09-10T16:08:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-lonmin-strike-goes-on-as-s-africa-mine-unrest-spreads\/"},"modified":"2012-09-10T16:08:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T14:08:01","slug":"update-2-lonmin-strike-goes-on-as-s-africa-mine-unrest-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-lonmin-strike-goes-on-as-s-africa-mine-unrest-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Lonmin strike goes on as S.Africa mine unrest spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin workers defy deadline to return to work<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Marching strikers and police in stand-off<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold Fields hit by new illegal strike<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Cropley<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking South<br \/>\nAfrican platinum miners stayed off the job on Monday and marched<br \/>\nto press wage demands at major producer Lonmin<br \/>\nas 15,000 workers at the world&#8217;s fourth biggest bullion<br \/>\nproducer, Gold Fields, also downed tools.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of Lonmin workers were defying a Monday deadline<br \/>\nto return to shafts that have been idle for a month at the<br \/>\nMarikana mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Growing labour unrest is challenging the ruling ANC&#8217;s claim<br \/>\nto be able to defend workers&#8217; interests while ensuring stable<br \/>\neconomic growth. It culminated in mid-August in violent clashes<br \/>\nwith police in which 44 people were killed at Marikana, most of<br \/>\nthem strikers shot by police officers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The killings conjured up painful memories of similar<br \/>\nincidents under racist apartheid rule, which ended in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police have said they opened fire in self-defence but fresh<br \/>\ntestimony that officers shot men who were fleeing or<br \/>\nsurrendering seems likely to deepen anger against the security<br \/>\nforces and the African National Congress (ANC).<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Lonmin workers defy deadline to return to work * Marching strikers and police in stand-off * Gold Fields hit by new illegal strike By Ed Cropley MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 10 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking South African platinum miners stayed off the job on Monday and marched to press wage demands at major producer Lonmin [&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-14456","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\/14456","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=14456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}