{"id":15839,"date":"2012-10-24T20:03:06","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:03:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-3-anglogold-sacks-12000-defiant-s-african-miners\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T20:03:06","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:03:06","slug":"update-3-anglogold-sacks-12000-defiant-s-african-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-anglogold-sacks-12000-defiant-s-african-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-AngloGold sacks 12,000 defiant S.African miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Company sacks 12,000 workers who ignored deadline<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Strikers remain defiant<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Gold miner Harmony has given strikers Thurs deadline<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By John Mkhize and Olivia Kumwenda<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>CARLETONVILLE, South Africa, Oct 24 (Reuters) &#8211; AngloGold<br \/>\nAshanti sacked 12,000 wildcat strikers who defied a<br \/>\ndeadline to return to work on Wednesday, the latest South<br \/>\nAfrican company to resort to mass firings after weeks of<br \/>\ncrippling labour unrest.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Thousands of stick-wielding strikers responded by rallying<br \/>\nnear the operations of AngloGold, the world&#8217;s third-largest<br \/>\nbullion producer, saying they would not buckle under company<br \/>\npressure.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Can you see how many of us are here? No one will fire such<br \/>\na number of people,&#8221; one of the labour leaders said to the crowd<br \/>\nof strikers at the company&#8217;s West Wits operations near<br \/>\nCarletonville, about 65 km (40 miles) west of Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Several companies have told strikers to return to work or<br \/>\nlose their jobs in a last-ditch move to resolve widening strikes<br \/>\nthat have poisoned labour relations and marred the image of<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s top economy.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>AngloGold had given strikers until noon (1000 GMT) on<br \/>\nWednesday to return. The roughly 12,000 striking employees at<br \/>\nits West Wits operation failed to return, spokesman Alan Fine<br \/>\nsaid.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Company sacks 12,000 workers who ignored deadline * Strikers remain defiant * Gold miner Harmony has given strikers Thurs deadline By John Mkhize and Olivia Kumwenda CARLETONVILLE, South Africa, Oct 24 (Reuters) &#8211; AngloGold Ashanti sacked 12,000 wildcat strikers who defied a deadline to return to work on Wednesday, the latest South African company [&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-15839","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\/15839","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=15839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15839\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}