{"id":15815,"date":"2012-10-23T20:01:32","date_gmt":"2012-10-23T18:01:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-3-gold-fields-fires-8500-strikers-at-s-africa-mine\/"},"modified":"2012-10-23T20:01:32","modified_gmt":"2012-10-23T18:01:32","slug":"update-3-gold-fields-fires-8500-strikers-at-s-africa-mine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-gold-fields-fires-8500-strikers-at-s-africa-mine\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-Gold Fields fires 8,500 strikers at S.Africa mine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold Fields sacks 8,500 illegal strikers<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Harmony tells miners to report for work Thursday<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Harmony says strike cost it 13,000 ounces in lost<br \/>\nproduction<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AngloGold Ashanti ultimatum ends Wednesday<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Olivia Kumwenda and Sherilee Lakmidas<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 23 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Gold Fields<br \/>\n sacked 8,500 wildcat strikers on Tuesday after they<br \/>\nignored an ultimatum to return to work or face firing,<br \/>\nratcheting up pressure to break weeks of labour unrest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>South Africa is struggling to resolve violent unrest that<br \/>\nhas poisoned industrial relations, marred its image overseas and<br \/>\nis spreading beyond the mining industry.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s fourth-largest bullion producer &#8211; one of several<br \/>\ncompanies to throw down an ultimatum to striking miners &#8211; issued<br \/>\ndismissal notices to the strikers at its KDC East mine near<br \/>\nJohannesburg, a company spokesman said. The workers will have 24<br \/>\nhours to appeal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have now reached a stage where we can&#8217;t hold off<br \/>\nanymore. Our hands were forced and we have now done it,&#8221;<br \/>\nspokesman Sven Lunsche said.<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 sacks 8,500 illegal strikers * Harmony tells miners to report for work Thursday * Harmony says strike cost it 13,000 ounces in lost production * AngloGold Ashanti ultimatum ends Wednesday By Olivia Kumwenda and Sherilee Lakmidas JOHANNESBURG, Oct 23 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s Gold Fields sacked 8,500 wildcat strikers on Tuesday after [&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-15815","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\/15815","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=15815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}