{"id":14663,"date":"2012-09-15T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2012-09-15T14:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-3-s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-at-strikers-near-massacre-site\/"},"modified":"2012-09-15T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2012-09-15T14:29:23","slug":"update-3-s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-at-strikers-near-massacre-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-at-strikers-near-massacre-site\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-S.Africa police fire tear gas at strikers near massacre site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Police raid Lonmin hostel for weapons<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Tear gas, rubber bullets used to disperse miners<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* S.Africa has vowed to crack down on weapons<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Union says received new offer from Lonmin<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Joshua Nhlapo<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South African<br \/>\npolice fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse striking<br \/>\nminers on Saturday after seizing machetes and other weapons in<br \/>\nan early-morning raid likely to aggravate tension from five<br \/>\nweeks of labour unrest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The police took action a day after South Africa promised to<br \/>\ncrack down on &#8220;illegal gatherings&#8221; and the carrying of weapons<br \/>\nby strikers, toughening its stance on strikes that have choked<br \/>\noff platinum output in the world&#8217;s top producer of the metal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>About 500 police officers raided hostels at Lonmin&#8217;s<br \/>\n Karee platinum mine near Marikana &#8211; where police killed<br \/>\n34 miners last month &#8211; and seized spears, machetes and other<br \/>\nweapons, police spokesman Thulani Ngubane said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The wildcat strike at Lonmin, prompted by demands for higher<br \/>\npay, has spread to other mining companies, raised questions<br \/>\nabout the ruling ANC&#8217;s slow response and damaged South Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nreputation among foreign investors.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Police raid Lonmin hostel for weapons * Tear gas, rubber bullets used to disperse miners * S.Africa has vowed to crack down on weapons * Union says received new offer from Lonmin By Joshua Nhlapo MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 15 (Reuters) &#8211; South African police fired tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse striking [&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-14663","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\/14663","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=14663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}