{"id":15331,"date":"2012-10-06T17:34:33","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:34:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/atlatsa-sacks-some-wildcat-strikers-at-s-africa-mine\/"},"modified":"2012-10-06T17:34:33","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:34:33","slug":"atlatsa-sacks-some-wildcat-strikers-at-s-africa-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/atlatsa-sacks-some-wildcat-strikers-at-s-africa-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlatsa sacks some wildcat strikers at S.Africa mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Atlatsa Resources<br \/>\nhas sacked some of the 2,500 workers who went on a wildcat<br \/>\nstrike this week at its Bokoni platinum mine in South Africa, an<br \/>\nofficial said on Saturday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company, which employs about 3,500 people at the mine,<br \/>\nwould not say how many had been sacked but those dismissed have<br \/>\ntwo days to appeal the decision, Joel Kesler, chief commercial<br \/>\nofficer, told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It planned to release details of the move on Monday.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The dismissals come after the world&#8217;s top producer of the<br \/>\nprecious metal, Anglo American Platinum, on Friday<br \/>\nsacked 12,000 miners at its operations in South Africa who had<br \/>\nalso joined a wildcat strike that halted production.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Bokoni is a joint venture with Anglo American Platinum<br \/>\n(Amplats).<\/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 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Atlatsa Resources has sacked some of the 2,500 workers who went on a wildcat strike this week at its Bokoni platinum mine in South Africa, an official said on Saturday. The company, which employs about 3,500 people at the mine, would not say how many had been sacked but those [&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-15331","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\/15331","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=15331"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15331\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15331"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15331"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15331"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}