{"id":15211,"date":"2012-10-03T17:28:13","date_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:28:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/workers-down-tools-at-kumba-mine-as-s-africa-strikes-spread\/"},"modified":"2012-10-03T17:28:13","modified_gmt":"2012-10-03T15:28:13","slug":"workers-down-tools-at-kumba-mine-as-s-africa-strikes-spread","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/workers-down-tools-at-kumba-mine-as-s-africa-strikes-spread\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers down tools at Kumba mine as S.Africa strikes spread"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Workers have gone on an<br \/>\nillegal strike at Kumba Iron Ore&#8217;s Sishen mine in South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s Northern Cape province, the latest wildcat action to<br \/>\nroil the country&#8217;s mining sector.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our members at Sishen say the guys went on strike from 2<br \/>\na.m. this morning and our understanding is that senior<br \/>\nexecutives flew down there early this morning,&#8221; said Gideon du<br \/>\nPlessis, deputy general secretary of the trade union Solidarity,<br \/>\nwhich is not part of the strike.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Kumba spokesman declined to comment but said the company<br \/>\nwould issue a statement shortly.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Oct 3 (Reuters) &#8211; Workers have gone on an illegal strike at Kumba Iron Ore&#8217;s Sishen mine in South Africa&#8217;s Northern Cape province, the latest wildcat action to roil the country&#8217;s mining sector. &#8220;Our members at Sishen say the guys went on strike from 2 a.m. this morning and our understanding is that senior [&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-15211","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\/15211","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=15211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15211\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}