{"id":14977,"date":"2012-09-26T16:58:55","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-anglogold-says-illegal-strike-spreads-in-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-09-26T16:58:55","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T14:58:55","slug":"update-2-anglogold-says-illegal-strike-spreads-in-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-anglogold-says-illegal-strike-spreads-in-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-AngloGold says illegal strike spreads in S.Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mining shares slide in Johannesburg<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AngloGold says illegal strike spreads<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats says could start firing unlawful strikers<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ANC rebel to address Implats&#8217; workers on Thursday<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard and Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 26 (Reuters) &#8211; An illegal strike spread<br \/>\nthrough AngloGold Ashanti&#8217;s South African operations on<br \/>\nWednesday, while Anglo American Platinum said it could start<br \/>\nfiring unlawful strikers on Thursday, as the country&#8217;s miners<br \/>\ngrapple to rein in weeks of labour unrest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A wave of wildcat action is roiling South Africa&#8217;s mines<br \/>\ndespite the end of an illegal six-week stoppage at platinum<br \/>\nproducer Lonmin  in which 46 people were killed<br \/>\nand the price of the white metal was pushed higher.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mining shares tanked in Johannesburg on Wednesday, with<br \/>\nAmplats losing almost 4.5 percent after it said it has<br \/>\nlost 20,000 ounces to the strike action since Sept 12, while<br \/>\nAngloGold  shares shed over 3 percent.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Most of AngloGold&#8217;s 35,000 workers have joined the wildcat<br \/>\naction that began last week at its Kopanang mine, spokesman Alan<br \/>\nFine said. The company is the world&#8217;s No.3 bullion producer and<br \/>\nSouth Africa accounted for about 32 percent of its global output<br \/>\nof close to 2 million ounces of gold in the first half of 2012.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Mining shares slide in Johannesburg * AngloGold says illegal strike spreads * Amplats says could start firing unlawful strikers * ANC rebel to address Implats&#8217; workers on Thursday By Ed Stoddard and Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG, Sept 26 (Reuters) &#8211; An illegal strike spread through AngloGold Ashanti&#8217;s South African operations on Wednesday, while Anglo American [&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-14977","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\/14977","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=14977"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14977\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14977"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14977"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14977"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}