{"id":15842,"date":"2012-10-24T20:03:12","date_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/s-africa-labour-hero-urged-crackdown-on-criminal-strike\/"},"modified":"2012-10-24T20:03:12","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T18:03:12","slug":"s-africa-labour-hero-urged-crackdown-on-criminal-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-labour-hero-urged-crackdown-on-criminal-strike\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa labour hero urged crackdown on &quot;criminal&quot; strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Company emails show Ramaphosa lobbying for government<br \/>\naction<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Anti-apartheid icon now being pilloried as mining tycoon<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ANC Youth League says he has workers&#8217; blood &#8220;on his hands&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Ramaphosa has been apologetic, saying &#8220;we are all to<br \/>\nblame&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Pascal Fletcher and Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 24 (Reuters) &#8211; South African millionaire<br \/>\nbusinessman and one-time anti-apartheid hero Cyril Ramaphosa<br \/>\nurged ministers to crack down on a violent platinum miners&#8217;<br \/>\nstrike the day before 34 miners were killed by police, according<br \/>\nto emails revealed this week.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The emails cited on Tuesday by a lawyer for miners arrested<br \/>\nover the Aug. 16 &#8220;Marikana Massacre&#8221; are the latest evidence of<br \/>\na reversal of historical roles for the 59-year-old, who himself<br \/>\nled a historic miners&#8217; pay strike under apartheid in 1987.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>As a respected and influential member of the National<br \/>\nExecutive Committee of the ruling African National Congress<br \/>\n(ANC), Ramaphosa has long been touted as a possible presidential<br \/>\ncontender.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Hailed with Nelson Mandela as a champion of anti-apartheid<br \/>\nstruggle, the man who was once called &#8220;South Africa&#8217;s Lech<br \/>\nWalesa&#8221; now finds himself pilloried as a cold-hearted capitalist<br \/>\nin his role of shareholder and board member of Lonmin<br \/>\n, the company at the heart of the Marikana dispute.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Company emails show Ramaphosa lobbying for government action * Anti-apartheid icon now being pilloried as mining tycoon * ANC Youth League says he has workers&#8217; blood &#8220;on his hands&#8221; * Ramaphosa has been apologetic, saying &#8220;we are all to blame&#8221; By Pascal Fletcher and Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Oct 24 (Reuters) &#8211; South African millionaire [&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-15842","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\/15842","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=15842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}