{"id":15882,"date":"2012-10-25T20:03:20","date_gmt":"2012-10-25T18:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/factbox-south-african-firms-hit-by-labour-strife\/"},"modified":"2012-10-25T20:03:20","modified_gmt":"2012-10-25T18:03:20","slug":"factbox-south-african-firms-hit-by-labour-strife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/factbox-south-african-firms-hit-by-labour-strife\/","title":{"rendered":"FACTBOX-South African firms hit by labour strife"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Oct 25 (Reuters) &#8211; About 100,000 workers have<br \/>\ndowned tools for better pay in South Africa since August. In<br \/>\nOctober around 15,000 were sacked and thousands returned to work<br \/>\nafter threats of dismissal.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Here is a summary of the worst-hit companies:<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ANGLO AMERICAN PLATINUM (Amplats)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Strike length: six weeks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Amplats, which has sacked 12,000 wildcat strikers at its<br \/>\nRustenburg mines, still has workers on strike at its Union And<br \/>\nAmandelbult operations, where it employees 20,500.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>While the company said it was holding off on further<br \/>\ndismissals, it cut its full year production target and capital<br \/>\nexpenditure plans for a second time on Thursday and said the<br \/>\nwalkouts had sliced 138,000 ounces off output, worth $217<br \/>\nmillion at Thursday&#8217;s price.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>ANGLOGOLD ASHANTI<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Strike length: four weeks.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JOHANNESBURG Oct 25 (Reuters) &#8211; About 100,000 workers have downed tools for better pay in South Africa since August. In October around 15,000 were sacked and thousands returned to work after threats of dismissal. Here is a summary of the worst-hit companies: ANGLO AMERICAN PLATINUM (Amplats) Strike length: six weeks. Amplats, which has sacked 12,000 [&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-15882","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\/15882","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=15882"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15882\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15882"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15882"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15882"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}