{"id":15340,"date":"2012-10-07T05:34:56","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T03:34:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-2-s-african-strikers-press-amplats-to-revoke-sackings\/"},"modified":"2012-10-07T05:34:56","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T03:34:56","slug":"update-2-s-african-strikers-press-amplats-to-revoke-sackings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-s-african-strikers-press-amplats-to-revoke-sackings\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-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>* Wildcat strikers sacked at Bokoni mine<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Hundreds of striking South<br \/>\nAfrican workers rallied on Saturday to press Anglo American<br \/>\nPlatinum to revoke its decision to fire 12,000 wildcat strikers<br \/>\namid a wave of 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 by police in armoured<br \/>\nvehicles and a helicopter, held a two-hour rally in a soccer<br \/>\nstadium near the platinum belt hub city of Rustenburg, 120 km<br \/>\n(70 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, and were urged to fight<br \/>\nfor their jobs.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The hastily arranged rally, held under a blazing sun and<br \/>\npunctuated by songs of labour struggle, was more subdued than<br \/>\nother protests over the past weeks where strikers brandished<br \/>\nmachetes and clubs, threatening to set fire to mine shafts.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Workers said the termination notice, delivered to many by<br \/>\nSMS, caught them by surprise on Friday, despite repeated threats<br \/>\nfrom Amplats that it planned to discipline strikers.<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 * Wildcat strikers sacked at Bokoni mine By Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Oct 6 (Reuters) &#8211; Hundreds of striking South African workers rallied on Saturday to press Anglo American Platinum to revoke its decision to fire 12,000 wildcat strikers amid a [&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-15340","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\/15340","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=15340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}