{"id":14571,"date":"2012-09-13T04:16:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:16:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-5-s-africa-mine-protests-hit-top-world-platinum-firm\/"},"modified":"2012-09-13T04:16:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T02:16:14","slug":"update-5-s-africa-mine-protests-hit-top-world-platinum-firm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-5-s-africa-mine-protests-hit-top-world-platinum-firm\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 5-S.Africa mine protests hit top world platinum firm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats becomes latest target of labour unrest<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Marchers block access to shafts<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ANC renegade Malema ridicules Zuma leadership<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Platinum prices spike, Amplats shares fall<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Siphiwe Sibeko and David Dolan<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>BATHOPELE MINE, South Africa, Sept 12 (Reuters) &#8211;<br \/>\nM achete-wielding strikers forced top world platinum producer<br \/>\nAnglo American Platinum to shut down some of its South<br \/>\nAfrican operations on Wednesday, widening the labour unrest<br \/>\nsweeping through the country&#8217;s mining industry.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A column of 1,500 chanting marchers confronted a small group<br \/>\nof riot police backed by armoured vehicles at the gates of the<br \/>\nfirm&#8217;s Bathopele shaft in the &#8220;platinum belt&#8221; near Rustenburg,<br \/>\n100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The protesters jeered workers inside the plant, a repeat of<br \/>\naction taken on Monday at rival Lonmin&#8217;s<br \/>\nneighbouring Marikana mine, where police shot dead 34 striking<br \/>\nminers on Aug. 16.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of us, we&#8217;re going to close all the operations,<br \/>\nstarting from Rustenburg. We&#8217;ll go even to the gold mines to<br \/>\nstop the operations,&#8221; marcher Evans Ramokga told Reuters.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Amplats becomes latest target of labour unrest * Marchers block access to shafts * ANC renegade Malema ridicules Zuma leadership * Platinum prices spike, Amplats shares fall By Siphiwe Sibeko and David Dolan BATHOPELE MINE, South Africa, Sept 12 (Reuters) &#8211; M achete-wielding strikers forced top world platinum producer Anglo American Platinum to shut [&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-14571","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\/14571","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=14571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}