{"id":14746,"date":"2012-09-18T16:39:17","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:39:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-lonmin-miners-cut-demands-as-s-africa-strikes-grind-on\/"},"modified":"2012-09-18T16:39:17","modified_gmt":"2012-09-18T14:39:17","slug":"update-2-lonmin-miners-cut-demands-as-s-africa-strikes-grind-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-lonmin-miners-cut-demands-as-s-africa-strikes-grind-on\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Lonmin miners cut demands as S.Africa strikes grind on"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmim management, workers press on with wage talks<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* No. 1 platinum producer Amplats silent on Rustenburg ops<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Activist says most Amplats workers there still off the job<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking South African<br \/>\nminers at platinum group Lonmin cut wage demands in their<br \/>\nsix-week stoppage, while the top world producer of the precious<br \/>\nmetal, Amplats, was silent on Tuesday on whether it had been<br \/>\nable to resume operations suspended in the unrest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The government, mediators and mining companies have<br \/>\nintensified efforts to resolve the mining sector troubles which<br \/>\nhave hit the rand currency, raised insurance against default on<br \/>\nSouth African debt and spooked some foreign investors into<br \/>\nselling shares in mining companies.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Strikers at Lonmin&#8217;s  Marikana mine 100 km<br \/>\n(60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg scaled back their basic<br \/>\ndemand to under 11,000 rand ($1,300) a month, still way above<br \/>\nthe latest offer from the world&#8217;s No. 3 platinum producer.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company, which is offering increases of between 9 and 21<br \/>\npercent, has said 12,500 rand would put thousands of jobs at<br \/>\nrisk and challenge the viability of the business.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Lonmin official said talks between the various parties had<br \/>\nresumed at mid-day on Tuesday after an overnight session.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Lonmim management, workers press on with wage talks * No. 1 platinum producer Amplats silent on Rustenburg ops * Activist says most Amplats workers there still off the job By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking South African miners at platinum group Lonmin cut wage demands in their six-week stoppage, while the [&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-14746","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\/14746","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=14746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}