{"id":8037,"date":"2012-02-16T14:08:36","date_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:08:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/striking-s-africa-miners-attack-police-one-dead\/"},"modified":"2012-02-16T14:08:36","modified_gmt":"2012-02-16T12:08:36","slug":"striking-s-africa-miners-attack-police-one-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/striking-s-africa-miners-attack-police-one-dead\/","title":{"rendered":"Striking S.Africa miners attack police, one dead"},"content":{"rendered":"

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JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 16 (Reuters) – Thousands of
\nprotesting miners burnt tyres and torched a police office near
\nImpala Platinum’s Rustenburg mine in South Africa on
\nThursday as a month-long strike at the world’s second-largest
\nproducer of the precious metal turned violent.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Police also said a miner who was beaten up during an
\novernight demonstration near the Rustenburg plant had died of
\nhis injuries.<\/p>\n

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Up to 5,000 miners were blocking the road leading to the
\nmine, 120 km (80 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, provincial
\npolice spokeswoman Adele Myburgh said. One female police officer
\nhad been injured by flying stones, she added.<\/p>\n

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“This has been ongoing for a while but this morning they
\nregrouped, started intimidating people who wanted to go to the
\nmine, there were people assaulted, vehicles were stoned,”
\nMyburgh said.<\/p>\n

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“The road was barricaded, vehicles travelling on that road
\nwere stoned, private vehicles as well as heavy-armed police
\nvehicles.”<\/p>\n

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Implats’ Rustenburg operations have been brought to a halt
\nfor a month because of a dispute stemming from the sacking of
\n17,200 employees after a wildcat strike on Jan. 12.<\/p>\n

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The company said the closure had cost 1.2 billion rand ($155
\nmillion) in lost output, and the lack of production has helped
\npush world platinum prices higher.<\/p>\n

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Myburgh said police had made eight arrests, but the
\nsituation was far from under control. “The situation is
\nobviously very tense and hostile,” she said.
\n ($1 = 7.7336 South African rand)\t<\/p>\n

(Reporting by Agnieszka Flak; Editing by Ed Cropley)<\/p>\n

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\t\t\u00a9 Thomson Reuters 2012 All rights reserved<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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