{"id":14791,"date":"2012-09-19T16:39:53","date_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-1-lonmin-deal-stirs-more-south-africa-mine-strife\/"},"modified":"2012-09-19T16:39:53","modified_gmt":"2012-09-19T14:39:53","slug":"update-1-lonmin-deal-stirs-more-south-africa-mine-strife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-lonmin-deal-stirs-more-south-africa-mine-strife\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Lonmin deal stirs more South Africa mine strife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Pay deal stirs up other workers<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin workers celebrate &#8220;death of NUM&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Zuma &#8220;relieved&#8221; but still under pressure<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 19 (Reuters) &#8211; South African<br \/>\npolice fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Wednesday to<br \/>\ndisperse protesters near a mine run by the world&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\nplatinum producer Anglo American Platinum, as unrest<br \/>\nspread after strikers at rival Lonmin won big pay rises.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Within hours of Lonmin  agreeing pay rises<br \/>\nof up to 22 percent, workers at nearby mines called for similar<br \/>\nraises, spelling more trouble after six weeks of industrial<br \/>\naction that claimed 45 lives and rocked South Africa&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want management to meet us as well now,&#8221; an organiser<br \/>\nfor the militant Association of Mineworkers and Construction<br \/>\nUnion (AMCU) at Impala Platinum, the second biggest<br \/>\nplatinum producer, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We want 9,000 rand ($1,100) a month as a basic wage instead<br \/>\nof the roughly 5,000 rand we are getting,&#8221; said the organiser,<br \/>\nwho declined to be named fearing recriminations from the firm.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Jubilant workers at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine, 100 km (60<br \/>\nmiles) northwest of Johannesburg, painted the deal as a victory<br \/>\nfor AMCU over the dominant National Union of Mineworkers (NUM),<br \/>\nan ally of the ruling African National Congress.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Pay deal stirs up other workers * Lonmin workers celebrate &#8220;death of NUM&#8221; * Zuma &#8220;relieved&#8221; but still under pressure By Sherilee Lakmidas MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 19 (Reuters) &#8211; South African police fired tear gas and rubber bullets on Wednesday to disperse protesters near a mine run by the world&#8217;s biggest platinum producer [&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-14791","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\/14791","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=14791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}