{"id":15141,"date":"2012-10-02T05:25:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T03:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-2-s-africa-mine-bosses-talk-tough-with-strikers\/"},"modified":"2012-10-02T05:25:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T03:25:04","slug":"update-2-s-africa-mine-bosses-talk-tough-with-strikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-s-africa-mine-bosses-talk-tough-with-strikers\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-S.Africa mine bosses talk tough with strikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats threatens to fire illegal strikers<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AngloGold says may have to scale back S.Africa ops<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Another illegal strike hits platinum sector<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Top global platinum producer<br \/>\nAnglo American Platinum (Amplats) said on Monday it<br \/>\nwould fire all strikers who did not attend disciplinary hearings<br \/>\nthe following day as an illegal strike continued at 4 of its<br \/>\nSouth African mines.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With no end in sight to a spate of wildcat strikes in South<br \/>\nAfrica, AngloGold Ashanti warned that an illegal<br \/>\nstoppage could lead to cuts in its operations there and said it<br \/>\nmight also have to fire workers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amid the tough talk from mining bosses, another illegal<br \/>\nstrike broke out on Monday at the Bokoni platinum mine run by<br \/>\nAmplats and Canadian-based Atlatsa Resources.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Bokoni strike is worrying because it is in the far<br \/>\neastern limb of the platinum belt, hundreds of kilometres from<br \/>\nthe wave of labour strife centred around the cities of<br \/>\nRustenburg and Marikana, where 46 people were killed in a bloody<br \/>\n6-week stoppage at Lonmin.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police said on Monday another body had been found in the<br \/>\nRustenburg area near an Amplats property and they believed the<br \/>\ndeath was related to the mine violence.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Amplats threatens to fire illegal strikers * AngloGold says may have to scale back S.Africa ops * Another illegal strike hits platinum sector By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; Top global platinum producer Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) said on Monday it would fire all strikers who did not attend disciplinary hearings the [&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-15141","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\/15141","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=15141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}