{"id":15203,"date":"2012-10-03T17:28:02","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:28:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-3-south-africa-wildcat-strikes-spread-to-more-mines\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T17:28:02","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:28:02","slug":"update-3-south-africa-wildcat-strikes-spread-to-more-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-south-africa-wildcat-strikes-spread-to-more-mines\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-South Africa wildcat strikes spread to more mines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Kumba Iron Ore says 300 employees involved, limited effect<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold producer Harmony reports illegal strike at mine<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Spread of labour unrest ups pressure on Zuma government<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Action rattles investors in Africa&#8217;s largest economy<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard and Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 3 (Reuters) &#8211; A series of wildcat miners&#8217;<br \/>\nstrikes in South Africa spread to a new sector, iron ore, on<br \/>\nWednesday and hit another gold firm in an escalation of the<br \/>\nlabour unrest that is testing President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The industrial action at Kumba Iron Ore, a unit of<br \/>\nglobal miner Anglo American, further dented investor<br \/>\nconfidence in the continent&#8217;s wealthiest economy as it showed<br \/>\nthe protests had moved beyond platinum and gold mines.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Workers at the Kusasalethu mine near Johannesburg, operated<br \/>\nby South Africa&#8217;s No. 3 bullion producer Harmony Gold,<br \/>\nalso downed tools in what management called an &#8220;unlawful&#8221; action<br \/>\nlaunched outside the normal collective bargaining channels.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zuma is under fire for failing to address and contain the<br \/>\nworkers&#8217; protests demanding wage increases, which stem in large<br \/>\npart from glaring wealth inequalities persisting in South Africa<br \/>\nsince the end of apartheid in 1994.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Kumba Iron Ore says 300 employees involved, limited effect * Gold producer Harmony reports illegal strike at mine * Spread of labour unrest ups pressure on Zuma government * Action rattles investors in Africa&#8217;s largest economy By Ed Stoddard and Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, Oct 3 (Reuters) &#8211; A series of wildcat miners&#8217; strikes in [&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-15203","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\/15203","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=15203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}