{"id":15729,"date":"2012-10-19T18:09:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-3-gold-fields-mine-strike-ends-in-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-10-19T18:09:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-19T16:09:32","slug":"update-3-gold-fields-mine-strike-ends-in-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-gold-fields-mine-strike-ends-in-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Gold Fields mine strike ends in South Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold Fields strike ends; 1,500 workers sacked<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin miners back to work after walkout over arrests<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Zuma promises to accelerate infrastructure plans<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Miners ended a strike at<br \/>\nSouth African bullion producer Gold Fields on Friday,<br \/>\nwhile President Jacob Zuma pledged to speed up investment to<br \/>\nease grievances fuelling the worst labour unrest since<br \/>\napartheid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>But a month-long strike at Anglo American Platinum,<br \/>\nthe world&#8217;s top producer of the precious metal, showed no sign<br \/>\nof ending. Workers were also still off the job at Harmony Gold&#8217;s<br \/>\n Kusasalethu mine.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>With the government calling on miners to return to work,<br \/>\ncompanies have become emboldened to issue sacking ultimatums to<br \/>\nthousands of illegal strikers, a hard-ball negotiating tactic<br \/>\nthat appears to be having some effect.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold Fields, the world&#8217;s No. 4 producer, said about 11,000<br \/>\nminers, threatened with dismissal unless they went back by<br \/>\nThursday, had returned to work after a month-long stoppage at<br \/>\nits KDC West operations in Carletonville, 40 km (25 miles) west<br \/>\nof Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It sacked 1,500 miners who had not turned up for work at KDC<br \/>\nWest and gave 8,500 workers on a wildcat strike at KDC East,<br \/>\nanother part of the mine, until early next week to report, or<br \/>\nlose their jobs.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Gold Fields strike ends; 1,500 workers sacked * Lonmin miners back to work after walkout over arrests * Zuma promises to accelerate infrastructure plans By Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG, Oct 19 (Reuters) &#8211; Miners ended a strike at South African bullion producer Gold Fields on Friday, while President Jacob Zuma pledged to speed up investment [&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-15729","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\/15729","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=15729"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15729\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}