{"id":14758,"date":"2012-09-19T04:37:32","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-6-s-africas-lonmin-miners-accept-pay-rise-to-end-strike\/"},"modified":"2012-09-19T04:37:32","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T02:37:32","slug":"update-6-s-africas-lonmin-miners-accept-pay-rise-to-end-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-6-s-africas-lonmin-miners-accept-pay-rise-to-end-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 6-S.Africa&#8217;s Lonmin miners accept pay rise to end strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Cheers as Marikana miners accept 22 pct wage hike<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Top platinum firm Amplats resumes Rustenburg operations<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rand firms on news, spot platinum price falls 2 pct<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Marikana unrest claimed 45 lives, shocked South Africa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mish Molakeng<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking<br \/>\nplatinum miners at Lonmin&#8217;s  Marikana mine in<br \/>\nSouth Africa accepted a hefty pay rise offer on Tuesday, ending<br \/>\nsix weeks of violent labour unrest that killed 45 people and<br \/>\nrattled Africa&#8217;s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The strikers, grouped on a bare soccer pitch near the mine,<br \/>\n100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, cheered when they<br \/>\nwere told that management were offering a 22 percent pay<br \/>\nincrease, and said they would return to work on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am happy &#8211; and forward with the struggle,&#8221; said one of<br \/>\nthe striking miners, Sithembile Sohati.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s a huge achievement. No union has achieved a 22 percent<br \/>\nincrease before,&#8221; Zolisa Bodlani, a worker representative at<br \/>\nMarikana, told Reuters.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Cheers as Marikana miners accept 22 pct wage hike * Top platinum firm Amplats resumes Rustenburg operations * Rand firms on news, spot platinum price falls 2 pct * Marikana unrest claimed 45 lives, shocked South Africa By Mish Molakeng MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 18 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking platinum miners at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine [&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-14758","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\/14758","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=14758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}