{"id":15566,"date":"2012-10-14T17:58:40","date_gmt":"2012-10-14T15:58:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-1-s-africa-police-arrest-72-gold-fields-miners\/"},"modified":"2012-10-14T17:58:40","modified_gmt":"2012-10-14T15:58:40","slug":"update-1-s-africa-police-arrest-72-gold-fields-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-s-africa-police-arrest-72-gold-fields-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-S.Africa police arrest 72 Gold Fields miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Recasts with police statement)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 14 (Reuters) &#8211; South African police fired<br \/>\nstun grenades and rubber bullets to break up a sit-in by<br \/>\nprotesters at a police station over the weekend and arrested<br \/>\nmore than 70 miners from a nearby Gold Fields mine,<br \/>\npolice said.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As many as 600 miners from Gold Fields Kloof mines staged a<br \/>\nsit-in at Westonaria police station, about 45 km west of<br \/>\nJohannesburg on Friday night, police said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After failing to disperse the protest, police said they<br \/>\nfired rubber bullets and stun grenades. The crowd responded by<br \/>\nbreaking windows and causing other damage at the station.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police said they arrested 72 miners, one of whom was<br \/>\ncarrying a firearm.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The protesters had arrived on buses earlier in the day to<br \/>\ndemand the release of 13 jailed miners.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a separate incident, police fired tear gas and rubber<br \/>\nbullets at protesters hurling petrol bombs after a march on an<br \/>\nAnglo American Platinum mine in Rustenburg turned<br \/>\nviolent late on Friday. <\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by David Dolan; Editing by Alison Williams and<br \/>\nPravin Char)<\/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>(Recasts with police statement) JOHANNESBURG Oct 14 (Reuters) &#8211; South African police fired stun grenades and rubber bullets to break up a sit-in by protesters at a police station over the weekend and arrested more than 70 miners from a nearby Gold Fields mine, police said. As many as 600 miners from Gold Fields Kloof [&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-15566","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\/15566","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=15566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15566\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}