{"id":15881,"date":"2012-10-25T20:03:19","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T18:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/update-1-s-african-strikes-ease-as-gold-mine-pay-deal-reached\/"},"modified":"2012-10-25T20:03:19","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T18:03:19","slug":"update-1-s-african-strikes-ease-as-gold-mine-pay-deal-reached","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-s-african-strikes-ease-as-gold-mine-pay-deal-reached\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-S.African strikes ease as gold mine pay deal reached"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* National Union of Mineworkers accepts gold industry offer<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Striking workers return to Harmony&#8217;s Kusasalethu mine<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Tens of thousands still on unofficial strikes<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Wildcat strikes cost economy over $1.1 billion this year<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Sherilee Lakmidas and Olivia Kumwenda<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Oct 25 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s gold mines<br \/>\nagreed a wage deal with unions on Thursday as the bulk of the<br \/>\ngold sector&#8217;s striking miners returned to work under threat of<br \/>\ndismissal.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The returns marked success of a sort for a new tough<br \/>\napproach by mining firms, but at least 12,000 gold and 20,000<br \/>\nplatinum miners were still pursuing a wave of illegal strikes<br \/>\nthat have cost Africa&#8217;s largest economy over 10 billion rand<br \/>\n($1.14 billion) this year, according to the National Treasury.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>About 100,000 workers in all have downed tools across South<br \/>\nAfrica since August in the often violent strikes that have<br \/>\ntriggered downgrades of South Africa&#8217;s credit ratings, and<br \/>\nawkward questions about government performance for President<br \/>\nJacob Zuma and the ruling African National Congress (ANC).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>After three weeks of negotiations, the National Union of<br \/>\nMineworkers (NUM) and the gold industry, which employs around<br \/>\n157,000, announced agreement on wage increases of between 1.5<br \/>\nand 10.8 percent for different categories of mine workers.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* National Union of Mineworkers accepts gold industry offer * Striking workers return to Harmony&#8217;s Kusasalethu mine * Tens of thousands still on unofficial strikes * Wildcat strikes cost economy over $1.1 billion this year By Sherilee Lakmidas and Olivia Kumwenda JOHANNESBURG, Oct 25 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africa&#8217;s gold mines agreed a wage deal with [&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-15881","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\/15881","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=15881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}