{"id":14596,"date":"2012-09-13T16:17:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:17:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/s-africa-mine-protest-leader-urges-national-strike\/"},"modified":"2012-09-13T16:17:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-13T14:17:17","slug":"s-africa-mine-protest-leader-urges-national-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-mine-protest-leader-urges-national-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa mine protest leader urges national strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">BLESBOK, South Africa, Sept 13<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; A leader of major<br \/>\nprotest by platinum miners in South Africa called on Thursday<br \/>\nfor a national strike in the sector &#8220;to bring the mining<br \/>\ncompanies to their knees&#8221;.<span><\/span><\/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 a crowd of<br \/>\nseveral thousand striking workers at a soccer stadium near<br \/>\nRustenburg in the heart of the platinum belt.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BLESBOK, South Africa, Sept 13 (Reuters) &#8211; A leader of major protest by platinum miners in South Africa called on Thursday for a national strike in the sector &#8220;to bring the mining companies to their knees&#8221;. &#8220;On Sunday, we are starting with a general strike here in Rustenburg,&#8221; protest leader Mametlwe Sebei told a crowd [&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-14596","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\/14596","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=14596"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14596\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14596"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14596"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14596"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}