{"id":15246,"date":"2012-10-04T17:32:26","date_gmt":"2012-10-04T15:32:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-2-toyota-in-4-day-strike-as-s-africa-mine-unrest-spreads\/"},"modified":"2012-10-04T17:32:26","modified_gmt":"2012-10-04T15:32:26","slug":"update-2-toyota-in-4-day-strike-as-s-africa-mine-unrest-spreads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-toyota-in-4-day-strike-as-s-africa-mine-unrest-spreads\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-Toyota in 4-day strike as S.Africa mine unrest spreads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Toyota&#8217;s Durban plant hit by four-day walkout<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Kumba Iron Ore stops output at giant Sishen pit<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats conveyors set on fire<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Zuma under pressure before ANC leadership vote<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Wendell Roelf<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CAPE TOWN, Oct 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Toyota Motor Corp said<br \/>\nit had been forced to shut its Durban vehicle plant for four<br \/>\ndays because of an illegal pay strike, indicating that South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s manufacturing sector may not be spared the wildcat<br \/>\nstoppages sweeping its mines.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The Japanese car giant said it had settled the dispute on<br \/>\nThursday and expected a return to work on Friday, but declined<br \/>\nto say what pay rise had been agreed. Production of nearly 2,500<br \/>\nvehicles was lost from the plant, half of whose output goes to<br \/>\nexport.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Elsewhere, Kumba Iron Ore, one of the world&#8217;s top<br \/>\n10 producers, said it had suspended production at its huge<br \/>\nSishen mine after striking employees blocked access to the pit.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After two months of labour unrest, as many as 75,000 miners,<br \/>\nor 15 percent of the sector&#8217;s workforce, are out on strike,<br \/>\nburdening already sluggish growth only three months before an<br \/>\ninternal leadership election in the ruling African National<br \/>\nCongress (ANC).<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Toyota&#8217;s Durban plant hit by four-day walkout * Kumba Iron Ore stops output at giant Sishen pit * Amplats conveyors set on fire * Zuma under pressure before ANC leadership vote By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, Oct 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Toyota Motor Corp said it had been forced to shut its Durban vehicle plant [&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-15246","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\/15246","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=15246"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15246\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}