{"id":15489,"date":"2012-10-11T17:46:01","date_gmt":"2012-10-11T15:46:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-3-striking-s-african-gold-miners-reject-pay-offer\/"},"modified":"2012-10-11T17:46:01","modified_gmt":"2012-10-11T15:46:01","slug":"update-3-striking-s-african-gold-miners-reject-pay-offer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-striking-s-african-gold-miners-reject-pay-offer\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Striking S.African gold miners reject pay offer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Union says options in gold dispute now &#8220;exhausted&#8221;<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Platinum output falls 1.9 pct in August<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* One man burnt to death in protest<\/p>\n<p> (Adds man killed, trucker strike latest)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas and Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking gold miners in<br \/>\nSouth Africa have rejected the industry&#8217;s latest wage offer, a<br \/>\ntrade union said on Thursday, dimming hopes that wildcat strikes<br \/>\nthat have paralysed the sector could end anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since August, almost 100,000 workers across South Africa &#8211;<br \/>\nincluding 75,000 in the mining sector &#8211; have downed tools in<br \/>\noften illegal and violent strikes that are hitting economic<br \/>\ngrowth and undermining investor confidence in the minerals hub.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This was a final offer from the companies. They said take<br \/>\nit or leave it,&#8221; Lesiba Seshoka, spokesman for the National<br \/>\nUnion of Mineworkers said. &#8220;Now that it has been rejected our<br \/>\noptions have been exhausted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Africa&#8217;s top two bullion producers, AngloGold Ashanti<br \/>\n and Gold Fields, have been hit by an estimated<br \/>\n48,000 miners taking to the streets to fight for higher wages.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The action is costing AngloGold 32,000 ounces of gold each<br \/>\nweek, while Gold Fields is losing 2,300 ounces a day at the two<br \/>\nmines that have been affected.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Union says options in gold dispute now &#8220;exhausted&#8221; * Platinum output falls 1.9 pct in August * One man burnt to death in protest (Adds man killed, trucker strike latest) By Sherilee Lakmidas and Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, Oct 11 (Reuters) &#8211; Striking gold miners in South Africa have rejected the industry&#8217;s latest wage offer, [&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-15489","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\/15489","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=15489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}