{"id":14831,"date":"2012-09-21T04:42:12","date_gmt":"2012-09-21T02:42:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-3-amplats-badly-hit-but-one-s-african-mine-strike-over\/"},"modified":"2012-09-21T04:42:12","modified_gmt":"2012-09-21T02:42:12","slug":"update-3-amplats-badly-hit-but-one-s-african-mine-strike-over","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-amplats-badly-hit-but-one-s-african-mine-strike-over\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Amplats badly hit but one S.African mine strike over"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Protesters burn tyres and barricade road<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats admits 20 pct of Rustenburg miners stay away<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Jubilant Lonmin miners return to work after pay rise<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Thousands<br \/>\nreported back for work at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine on Thursday,<br \/>\nending a strike in which 45 people died, but miners at Amplats<br \/>\nbarricaded a street with burning tyres and the firm said it had<br \/>\nbeen badly hit by a walkout over pay.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A police helicopter hovered above a shanty town near Amplats<br \/>\nmines at Rustenburg, 100 km (70 miles) northwest of<br \/>\nJohannesburg. Armed officers backed by armoured vehicles and<br \/>\nwater cannon were on stand-by.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>There were no reports of clashes but Anglo American Platinum<br \/>\n, or Amplats, the world&#8217;s top producer of the precious<br \/>\nmetal, reported only one in five of its workers had turned up at<br \/>\nits Rustenburg mines.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is clear the wave of wildcat strikes in the mining sector<br \/>\nhas not ended with the signing this week of a pay deal at Lonmin<br \/>\nLonmin , a smaller platinum producer.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Lonmin released details on Thursday of the wage settlement<br \/>\nwhich will add 14 percent to its wage bill from Oct. 1, a huge<br \/>\nstrain on a company with a shaky balance sheet and rising costs<br \/>\non other fronts.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Protesters burn tyres and barricade road * Amplats admits 20 pct of Rustenburg miners stay away * Jubilant Lonmin miners return to work after pay rise By Helen Nyambura-Mwaura MARIKANA, South Africa, Sept 20 (Reuters) &#8211; Thousands reported back for work at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana mine on Thursday, ending a strike in which 45 people [&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-14831","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\/14831","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=14831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}