{"id":15296,"date":"2012-10-05T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-4-s-africas-amplats-fires-12000-wildcat-strikers\/"},"modified":"2012-10-05T17:33:04","modified_gmt":"2012-10-05T15:33:04","slug":"update-4-s-africas-amplats-fires-12000-wildcat-strikers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-s-africas-amplats-fires-12000-wildcat-strikers\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-S.Africa&#8217;s Amplats fires 12,000 wildcat strikers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Amplats fires 12,000 wildcat strikers<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* &#8220;Platinum belt&#8221; death toll nears 50<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Rand falls as labour unrest spreads<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Shell declares &#8220;force majeure&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Anglo American Platinum<br \/>\n(Amplats) fired 12,000 wildcat strikers on Friday, a<br \/>\nhigh-stakes attempt by the world&#8217;s biggest platinum producer to<br \/>\npush back at a wave of illegal stoppages sweeping through South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s mining sector and beyond.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The rand fell sharply after the announcement,<br \/>\nsuggesting investors fear the sackings could worsen what is<br \/>\nshaping up to be the most damaging period of labour unrest in<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s biggest economy since the end of apartheid in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police shot dead one striking miner overnight, bringing the<br \/>\ndeath toll in two months of unrest to 48. Strikes have spread<br \/>\nbeyond the mining sector, with Shell declaring on Friday that it<br \/>\nwould not be able to honour contracts to deliver fuel near<br \/>\nJohannesburg because of a trucking strike.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The unrest is causing political trouble for President Jacob<br \/>\nZuma and his ruling African National Congress (ANC), the veteran<br \/>\nliberation movement with long-standing ties to labour unions.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Amplats fires 12,000 wildcat strikers * &#8220;Platinum belt&#8221; death toll nears 50 * Rand falls as labour unrest spreads * Shell declares &#8220;force majeure&#8221; By Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, Oct 5 (Reuters) &#8211; Anglo American Platinum (Amplats) fired 12,000 wildcat strikers on Friday, a high-stakes attempt by the world&#8217;s biggest platinum producer to push back [&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-15296","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\/15296","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=15296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}