{"id":15217,"date":"2012-10-04T05:28:11","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-5-south-africa-wildcat-strikes-spread-to-more-mines\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T05:28:11","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T03:28:11","slug":"update-5-south-africa-wildcat-strikes-spread-to-more-mines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-5-south-africa-wildcat-strikes-spread-to-more-mines\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 5-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 spread to South Africa&#8217;s iron ore sector on Wednesday<br \/>\nand hit another gold firm in an escalation of the labour unrest<br \/>\nthat is testing President Jacob Zuma&#8217;s leadership.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The country&#8217;s mining industry body has agreed to re-open<br \/>\nwage talks in the coal and gold mining sectors, the National<br \/>\nUnion of Mineworkers said, a sign that more companies may be<br \/>\nforced to make costly concessions to end the crippling strikes.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The industrial action at Kumba Iron Ore, a unit of<br \/>\nglobal miner Anglo American and among the world&#8217;s top 10<br \/>\nproducers, further dented investor confidence in the continent&#8217;s<br \/>\nwealthiest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Workers at the Kusasalethu gold mine near Johannesburg,<br \/>\noperated by South Africa&#8217;s No. 3 bullion producer Harmony Gold<br \/>\n, also downed tools in what management called an<br \/>\n&#8220;unlawful&#8221; action launched outside the normal channels.<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 spread [&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-15217","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\/15217","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=15217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}