{"id":15332,"date":"2012-10-06T17:34:34","date_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:34:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-african-strikers-press-amplats-to-revoke-sackings\/"},"modified":"2012-10-06T17:34:34","modified_gmt":"2012-10-06T15:34:34","slug":"s-african-strikers-press-amplats-to-revoke-sackings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-african-strikers-press-amplats-to-revoke-sackings\/","title":{"rendered":"S.African strikers press Amplats to revoke sackings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Hundreds hold rally at platinum belt stadium<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Strikes raise worries about government finances<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Petra Diamonds workers end walkout<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking South African<br \/>\nworkers rallied on Saturday to press Anglo American Platinum to<br \/>\nrevoke its decision to fire 12,000 wildcat strikers amid a wave<br \/>\nof labour strife sweeping Africa&#8217;s largest economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 50 people have been killed since August in labour<br \/>\nconflict in the crucial mining sector, and President Jacob<br \/>\nZuma&#8217;s ruling ANC is struggling to damp down some of the worst<br \/>\nsocial unrest since the end of apartheid in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Several hundred workers, watched closely by police, held a<br \/>\nrally in a soccer stadium near the platinum belt hub city of<br \/>\nRustenburg, 120 km (70 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, and<br \/>\nwere urged to fight for their jobs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Ignore those SMS&#8217;s you&#8217;ve received saying you have been<br \/>\ndismissed,&#8221; one labour leader was quoted as saying by radio<br \/>\nbroadcaster Eyewitness News.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The sackings at Amplats (Anglo American Platinum)<br \/>\non Friday triggered a 4 percent fall to 3-1\/2 year lows in South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s rand as investors dumped the country&#8217;s assets.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Hundreds hold rally at platinum belt stadium * Strikes raise worries about government finances * Petra Diamonds workers end walkout By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Oct 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking South African workers rallied on Saturday to press Anglo American Platinum to revoke its decision to fire 12,000 wildcat strikers amid a wave of labour [&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-15332","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\/15332","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=15332"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15332\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15332"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15332"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15332"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}