{"id":7519,"date":"2012-01-31T09:21:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/01\/update-1-implats-appoints-terence-goodlace-as-ceo\/"},"modified":"2012-01-31T09:21:23","modified_gmt":"2012-01-31T07:21:23","slug":"update-1-implats-appoints-terence-goodlace-as-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-implats-appoints-terence-goodlace-as-ceo\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-Implats appoints Terence Goodlace as CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>(Adds background)<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Jan 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum<br \/>\n, the world&#8217;s second largest platinum producer, said on<br \/>\nTuesday it was appointing Terence Goodlace as chief executive<br \/>\nofficer to take over from David Brown, who will step down at the<br \/>\nend of June.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company had the second-worst performing shares among<br \/>\nSouth Africa&#8217;s benchmark Top 40 index in 2011, shedding<br \/>\n28 percent during the year as the platinum price struggled.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>It is facing labour unrest at its Rustenburg operations,<br \/>\nwhich has been costing it an estimated 3,000 ounces a day in<br \/>\nlost production since about two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Like other South African platinum producers, it is also<br \/>\nfacing increased safety stoppages from government regulators<br \/>\ntasked with reducing mining deaths.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s Zimbabwe operations is in talks with the<br \/>\ngovernment there over disputed royalties and a drive to force<br \/>\nforeign miners to surrender majority stakes to local blacks.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Goodlace was the chief executive of Metrorex, a copper and<br \/>\ncobalt producer with operations in Zambia and Democratic<br \/>\nRepublic of Congo, which delisted from Johannesburg&#8217;s bourse<br \/>\nafter it was taken over by China&#8217;s Jinchuan Group Limited.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ed Stoddard; Editing by Jon Herskovitz)<\/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>(Adds background) JOHANNESBURG Jan 31 (Reuters) &#8211; Impala Platinum , the world&#8217;s second largest platinum producer, said on Tuesday it was appointing Terence Goodlace as chief executive officer to take over from David Brown, who will step down at the end of June. The company had the second-worst performing shares among South Africa&#8217;s benchmark Top [&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-7519","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\/7519","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=7519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}