{"id":14594,"date":"2012-09-13T16:17:15","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-3-south-african-miners-pressure-anc-with-new-strike-call\/"},"modified":"2012-09-13T16:17:15","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:17:15","slug":"update-3-south-african-miners-pressure-anc-with-new-strike-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-south-african-miners-pressure-anc-with-new-strike-call\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-South African miners pressure ANC with new strike call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Movement turning into grass-roots rebellion<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Zuma feeling the heat ahead of ANC vote<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Investors worried about risks to economy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Pascal Fletcher<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Sept 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A leader of a<br \/>\nmajor protest by South African platinum miners called on<br \/>\nThursday for a national strike in the sector, deepening an<br \/>\nindustrial crisis that is evolving into the biggest threat to<br \/>\nthe ruling ANC since it came to power in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The wave of labour unrest in Africa&#8217;s biggest economy has<br \/>\nspiralled beyond the control of the government and unions into a<br \/>\ngrass-roots rebellion by black South Africans who have seen<br \/>\nlittle improvement in their lives since apartheid ended 18 years<br \/>\nago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;On Sunday, we are starting with a general strike here in<br \/>\nRustenburg,&#8221; protest leader Mametlwe Sebei told several thousand<br \/>\nworkers at a soccer stadium in the heart of the platinum belt<br \/>\nnear Rustenburg, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The action was designed to &#8220;bring the mining companies to<br \/>\ntheir knees&#8221;, he said, to mild applause from the crowd, which<br \/>\nwas armed with sticks and machetes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Despite the weapons, the strikers insisted their push for a<br \/>\nsharp hike in wages was peaceful &#8211; even after the Aug. 16 police<br \/>\nshooting of 34 protesters at Lonmin&#8217;s  nearby<br \/>\nMarikana platinum mine.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Movement turning into grass-roots rebellion * Zuma feeling the heat ahead of ANC vote * Investors worried about risks to economy By Pascal Fletcher RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Sept 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A leader of a major protest by South African platinum miners called on Thursday for a national strike in the sector, deepening an [&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-14594","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\/14594","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=14594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}