{"id":15057,"date":"2012-09-28T17:08:34","date_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-striking-amplats-miners-in-s-africa-defiant\/"},"modified":"2012-09-28T17:08:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-28T15:08:34","slug":"update-2-striking-amplats-miners-in-s-africa-defiant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-striking-amplats-miners-in-s-africa-defiant\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Striking Amplats miners in S.Africa defiant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Illegal strikes denting investor confidence<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats workers defy dismissal threats<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Strikes spread to junior gold producer<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Sept 28 (Reuters) &#8211; South African<br \/>\nminers on an illegal strike against the world&#8217;s top platinum<br \/>\nproducer defied management threats of dismissal on Friday,<br \/>\nthrowing down the gauntlet as another wildcat stoppage hit the<br \/>\ncountry&#8217;s restive mining sector.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Anglo American Platinum (Amplats), the top producer<br \/>\nof the white metal and a unit of global mining group Anglo<br \/>\nAmerican, said on Thursday it would begin disciplinary<br \/>\naction against illegal strikers and could fire them.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Four of Amplats&#8217; Rustenburg mines, accounting for a quarter<br \/>\nof group output, have been idle for more than two weeks, costing<br \/>\nthe company at least 20,000 ounces in lost output to date &#8211; $33<br \/>\nmillion at current spot prices.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A wave of illegal mine strikes is roiling Africa&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\neconomy despite the end of a bloody six-week stoppage at another<br \/>\nplatinum producer, Lonmin , in which 46 people<br \/>\nwere killed.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Spot platinum was up 1.4 percent at $1,665.74 an<br \/>\nounce, on track for a 15.4 percent quarterly rise.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Illegal strikes denting investor confidence * Amplats workers defy dismissal threats * Strikes spread to junior gold producer By Agnieszka Flak RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Sept 28 (Reuters) &#8211; South African miners on an illegal strike against the world&#8217;s top platinum producer defied management threats of dismissal on Friday, throwing down the gauntlet as another [&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-15057","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\/15057","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=15057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}