{"id":14505,"date":"2012-09-12T04:15:08","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-anc-rebel-calls-for-national-mine-strike-in-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-09-12T04:15:08","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:15:08","slug":"update-2-anc-rebel-calls-for-national-mine-strike-in-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-anc-rebel-calls-for-national-mine-strike-in-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-ANC rebel calls for national mine strike in S.Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* Julius Malema calls for walkout “in all mines”<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Mine unrest has brewed political storm for President Zuma<\/p>\n

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* Lonmin strike rumbles on, workers intimidated by strikers<\/p>\n

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* Second illegal strike under way at Gold Fields<\/p>\n

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By Alvin Andrews<\/p>\n

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CARLETONVILLE, South Africa, Sept 11 (Reuters) – ANC
\nrenegade Julius Malema called on Tuesday for a national strike
\nin South Africa’s mining sector, stirring fear of an escalation
\nin the labour unrest already buffeting the platinum and gold
\nindustries in the continent’s largest economy.<\/p>\n

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The flagship sector has been hit by a walkout that
\nculminated in mid-August in violence between striking miners and
\npolice that killed 44 people. Of these, 34 were miners shot in a
\nsingle day by police at the Marikana mine of Lonmin, the
\nworld’s No. 3 platinum producer.<\/p>\n

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The so-called “Marikana massacre” has brewed a political
\nstorm for President Jacob Zuma and his African National Congress
\n(ANC) government. Detractors accuse them of neglecting the
\nworking masses who fought and shed blood to help achieve the end
\nof white-minority apartheid rule in 1994.<\/p>\n

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The industrial trouble rocking the platinum belt has spread
\nto gold, with a second illegal strike in as many weeks at a mine
\nrun by world No. 4 bullion producer Gold Fields, where
\n15,000 workers downed their tools on Sunday night.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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* Julius Malema calls for walkout “in all mines” * Mine unrest has brewed political storm for President Zuma * Lonmin strike rumbles on, workers intimidated by strikers * Second illegal strike under way at Gold Fields By Alvin Andrews CARLETONVILLE, South Africa, Sept 11 (Reuters) – ANC renegade Julius Malema called on Tuesday for […]<\/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-14505","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\/14505","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=14505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14505\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}