{"id":15640,"date":"2012-10-17T06:02:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-1-police-remove-strikers-from-kumbas-s-africa-sishen-mine\/"},"modified":"2012-10-17T06:02:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T04:02:36","slug":"update-1-police-remove-strikers-from-kumbas-s-africa-sishen-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-police-remove-strikers-from-kumbas-s-africa-sishen-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Police remove strikers from Kumba&#8217;s S.Africa Sishen mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Production at Sishen to resume as soon as possible<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold Fields give Thursday deadline for strikers to return<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold One suspends Ezulwini mine for 30 days<\/p>\n<p> (Recasts with Gold Fields, adds Atlatsa, details)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas and Agnieszka Flak<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 16 (Reuters) &#8211; An illegal strike at Kumba<br \/>\nIron Ore&#8217;s Sishen mine in South Africa ended on Tuesday<br \/>\nafter police arrested 40 miners while other mining firms<br \/>\nthreatened mass dismissals to try to halt the unrest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In a pre-dawn raid, police recovered Kumba&#8217;s trucks and<br \/>\nbulldozers seized by the strikers who had blockaded the pit for<br \/>\nalmost two weeks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Since August, more than 80,000 miners have downed tools in<br \/>\noften violent walkouts that are hitting economic growth and<br \/>\ninvestor confidence, and raising questions about President Jacob<br \/>\nZuma&#8217;s leadership shortly before an internal election in the<br \/>\nruling African National Congress (ANC).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The strike at Sishen cost Kumba, a unit of Anglo American<br \/>\n and Africa&#8217;s largest iron ore producer, 120,000 tonnes<br \/>\nof lost production a day.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Any damage to equipment is being assessed and the company<br \/>\nhas plans in place to restore the mine to full production as<br \/>\nsoon as possible,&#8221; Kumba said. Its shares rose 2.7 percent.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Production at Sishen to resume as soon as possible * Gold Fields give Thursday deadline for strikers to return * Gold One suspends Ezulwini mine for 30 days (Recasts with Gold Fields, adds Atlatsa, details) By Sherilee Lakmidas and Agnieszka Flak JOHANNESBURG, Oct 16 (Reuters) &#8211; An illegal strike at Kumba Iron Ore&#8217;s Sishen [&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-15640","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\/15640","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=15640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15640\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}