{"id":15252,"date":"2012-10-05T05:31:53","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:31:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-6-s-african-mine-unrest-spreads-toyota-hit-by-strike\/"},"modified":"2012-10-05T05:31:53","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T03:31:53","slug":"update-6-s-african-mine-unrest-spreads-toyota-hit-by-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-6-s-african-mine-unrest-spreads-toyota-hit-by-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 6-S.African mine unrest spreads, Toyota hit by strike"},"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>* Three more Amplats mines closed; police fire teargas<\/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>* Talks to end truck drivers&#8217; strike collapse<\/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 South African car factory for<br \/>\nfour days because of an illegal pay strike, the first sign of<br \/>\nwildcat mine stoppages spreading into other parts of Africa&#8217;s<br \/>\nbiggest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Trade union leaders at the Japanese car giant&#8217;s Durban plant<br \/>\nsaid workers would return on Friday after winning a 5.4 percent<br \/>\npay rise inspired in part by a hefty increase won last month by<br \/>\nstrikers at Lonmin&#8217;s  Marikana platinum mine.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The circumstances are not the same as what is happening in<br \/>\nthe mines,&#8221; said Mbuso Ngubane of the National Union of<br \/>\nMetalworkers of South Africa (NUMSA).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But it does send a message. It does have an impact to some<br \/>\nextent on other workers getting agitated.&#8221;<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 * Three more Amplats mines closed; police fire teargas * Kumba Iron Ore stops output at giant Sishen pit * Talks to end truck drivers&#8217; strike collapse By Wendell Roelf CAPE TOWN, Oct 4 (Reuters) &#8211; Toyota Motor Corp said it had been forced to shut its [&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-15252","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\/15252","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=15252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}