{"id":14686,"date":"2012-09-17T04:32:39","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T02:32:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-amplats-to-resume-work-as-s-africa-police-get-tough\/"},"modified":"2012-09-17T04:32:39","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T02:32:39","slug":"update-2-amplats-to-resume-work-as-s-africa-police-get-tough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-amplats-to-resume-work-as-s-africa-police-get-tough\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Amplats to resume work as S.Africa police get tough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats to resume operations on Tuesday<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin promises new approach to talks<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Finance minister says no need to revise fiscal outlook<\/p>\n<p> (Recasts with Amplats, adds details throughout)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Olivia Kumwenda<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Anglo American Platinum<br \/>\n said it will resume work on Tuesday at its strike-hit<br \/>\nRustenburg operations, just days after South Africa&#8217;s government<br \/>\nlaunched a crackdown to disarm miners and end five weeks of<br \/>\nlabour unrest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amplats, the world&#8217;s top producer of the precious metal,<br \/>\nsuspended some of its operations this week after<br \/>\nmachete-wielding strikers marched on shafts near Rustenburg, 100<br \/>\nkm (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The situation in Rustenburg remains calm and our current<br \/>\nintention is to resume operations on Tuesday morning, which will<br \/>\nprovide time for the government to implement further security<br \/>\nmeasures,&#8221; the company said in a statement on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Following a government promise to get tough on miners,<br \/>\npolice raided a Lonmin Plc  hostel early on<br \/>\nSaturday and seized spears, machetes and other weapons from<br \/>\nstrikers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s government, after weeks of drawing<br \/>\naccusations of responding too slowly, said on Friday it would<br \/>\nclamp down on &#8220;illegal gatherings&#8221; and go after armed miners.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Amplats to resume operations on Tuesday * Lonmin promises new approach to talks * Finance minister says no need to revise fiscal outlook (Recasts with Amplats, adds details throughout) By Olivia Kumwenda JOHANNESBURG, Sept 16 (Reuters) &#8211; Anglo American Platinum said it will resume work on Tuesday at its strike-hit Rustenburg operations, just days [&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-14686","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\/14686","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=14686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14686\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}