{"id":7289,"date":"2012-01-22T20:58:57","date_gmt":"2012-01-22T18:58:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/zimplats-workers-strike-over-power-bills-paper\/"},"modified":"2012-01-22T20:58:57","modified_gmt":"2012-01-22T18:58:57","slug":"zimplats-workers-strike-over-power-bills-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/zimplats-workers-strike-over-power-bills-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Zimplats workers strike over power bills -paper"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">HARARE<\/span> Jan 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Workers at the Zimbabwe<br \/>\nunit of platinum miner Impala Platinum have gone on<br \/>\nstrike to force the company to pay for their personal<br \/>\nelectricity bills, which has partially hit production, state<br \/>\nmedia reported on Sunday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The state-owned Sunday Mail reported that half the workers<br \/>\nat Zimplats&#8217; Ngezi mine had taken mass industrial<br \/>\naction over the electricity dispute.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>No one at Zimplats was immediately available for comment to<br \/>\nReuters on Sunday but spokeswoman Busi Chindove told the<br \/>\nnewspaper that industrial action was taking place.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We can confirm that some of our workers at Ngezi mine have<br \/>\nresorted to taking industrial action. Please note, 50 percent of<br \/>\nthe workforce has reported for duty,&#8221; Chindove was quoted as<br \/>\nsaying by the Sunday Mail.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Zimplats is 87 percent owned by South Africa&#8217;s Implats and<br \/>\nis among several foreign-owned mines being pressured by<br \/>\nPresident Robert Mugabe&#8217;s government to cede majority ownership<br \/>\nto black Zimbabweans.  \t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by MacDonald Dzirutwe; Editing by Hans-Juergen<br \/>\nPeters)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright\">\n<p>         \t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HARARE Jan 22 (Reuters) &#8211; Workers at the Zimbabwe unit of platinum miner Impala Platinum have gone on strike to force the company to pay for their personal electricity bills, which has partially hit production, state media reported on Sunday. The state-owned Sunday Mail reported that half the workers at Zimplats&#8217; Ngezi mine had taken [&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-7289","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\/7289","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=7289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}