{"id":14707,"date":"2012-09-17T16:36:30","date_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-two-s-africa-mines-reopen-situation-still-tense\/"},"modified":"2012-09-17T16:36:30","modified_gmt":"2012-09-17T14:36:30","slug":"update-2-two-s-africa-mines-reopen-situation-still-tense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-two-s-africa-mines-reopen-situation-still-tense\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Two S.Africa mines reopen, situation still tense"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Aquarius, Xstrata reopen mines near Rustenburg<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* All Lonmin mines remain closed; pay talks resume<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats says Rustenburg ops to resume on Tuesday<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* One workers&#8217; head says that will be resisted<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Two South African mines<br \/>\nreopened on Monday after labour strife forced them to suspend<br \/>\noperations last week, but striking miners vowed to keep<br \/>\noperations run by world No. 1 platinum producer Anglo American<br \/>\nPlatinum (Amplats) shut.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Wage talks were set to resume in a bid to end a violent<br \/>\n5-week strike that has killed 45 people around the Marikana mine<br \/>\nof platinum producer Lonmin, bringing its production to<br \/>\na halt and pushing up the price of the precious white metal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unrest has its roots in a bloody turf war for members<br \/>\nbetween an upstart union and the dominant National Union of<br \/>\nMineworkers (NUM) but it is now unclear who the strikers are<br \/>\ntaking their direction from.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police used tear gas and rubber bullets over the weekend as<br \/>\npart of an operation to disarm miners, implementing the<br \/>\ngovernment&#8217;s decision to get tough on strikes that choked off<br \/>\nplatinum output in the world&#8217;s top producer. The army has also<br \/>\nbeen brought in to help restore order.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Aquarius, Xstrata reopen mines near Rustenburg * All Lonmin mines remain closed; pay talks resume * Amplats says Rustenburg ops to resume on Tuesday * One workers&#8217; head says that will be resisted By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, Sept 17 (Reuters) &#8211; Two South African mines reopened on Monday after labour strife forced them to [&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-14707","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\/14707","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=14707"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14707\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}