{"id":15314,"date":"2012-10-06T05:33:09","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T03:33:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/south-african-union-leader-shot-dead-near-lonmin-mine\/"},"modified":"2012-10-06T05:33:09","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T03:33:09","slug":"south-african-union-leader-shot-dead-near-lonmin-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-african-union-leader-shot-dead-near-lonmin-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"South African union leader shot dead near Lonmin mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 5 (Reuters) &#8211; A branch leader of South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was shot dead on<br \/>\nFriday near a mine run by platinum producer Lonmin as<br \/>\nlabour unrest sweeps the mining sector.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>NUM spokesman Lesiba Seshoka told Reuters the union leader<br \/>\nhad been killed &#8220;execution style&#8221; in the evening hours but gave<br \/>\nno further details.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Friday Anglo American Platinum (Amplats)<br \/>\nfired 12,000 wildcat strikers, a high-stakes attempt by the<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s biggest platinum producer to push back at the illegal<br \/>\nstoppages in Africa&#8217;s biggest economy.<\/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 5 (Reuters) &#8211; A branch leader of South Africa&#8217;s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was shot dead on Friday near a mine run by platinum producer Lonmin as labour unrest sweeps the mining sector. NUM spokesman Lesiba Seshoka told Reuters the union leader had been killed &#8220;execution style&#8221; in the evening hours but [&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-15314","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\/15314","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=15314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15314\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}