{"id":15789,"date":"2012-10-22T18:20:48","date_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:20:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-2-anglogold-gives-striking-s-african-miners-ultimatum\/"},"modified":"2012-10-22T18:20:48","modified_gmt":"2012-10-22T16:20:48","slug":"update-2-anglogold-gives-striking-s-african-miners-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-anglogold-gives-striking-s-african-miners-ultimatum\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-AngloGold gives striking S.African miners ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AngloGold tells strikers to return or face dismissal<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Hearings open for commission investigating Marikana deaths<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Government pressing miners to return to work<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Dolan and Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 22 (Reuters) &#8211; AngloGold Ashanti Ltd<br \/>\n, the world&#8217;s No.3 gold producer,  has told striking<br \/>\nSouth African miners to return to work or face dismissal,<br \/>\njoining rivals taking an increasingly hard line against labour<br \/>\nunrest that has choked off output.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa is struggling to resolve violent unrest that<br \/>\nhas poisoned industrial relations and marred its image overseas.<br \/>\nOn Monday the commission investigating the killing of 34 miners<br \/>\nby police on Aug. 16 heard opening statements.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is regretful that matters have reached this stage, with<br \/>\njob losses now being threatened and livelihoods for thousands of<br \/>\nfamilies being placed at risk,&#8221; AngloGold Ashanti Chief<br \/>\nExecutive Mark Cutifani said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company said workers, who have been on a month-long<br \/>\nillegal strike, must return to work by noon (1000 GMT) on<br \/>\nWednesday or face dismissal. Those who return on time will<br \/>\nreceive an improved wage offer, it added.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>About 100,000 workers in South Africa, mostly in mining,<br \/>\nhave downed tools for better pay since August. The strikes have<br \/>\nsparked credit downgrades of Africa&#8217;s top economy and raised<br \/>\nquestions about the relatively slow response of President Jacob<br \/>\nZuma&#8217;s government.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* AngloGold tells strikers to return or face dismissal * Hearings open for commission investigating Marikana deaths * Government pressing miners to return to work By David Dolan and Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG, Oct 22 (Reuters) &#8211; AngloGold Ashanti Ltd , the world&#8217;s No.3 gold producer, has told striking South African miners to return to work [&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-15789","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\/15789","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=15789"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15789\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15789"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15789"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15789"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}