{"id":8051,"date":"2012-02-17T02:07:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/update-3-s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-at-rioting-platinum-miners\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T02:07:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:07:44","slug":"update-3-s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-at-rioting-platinum-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-at-rioting-platinum-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-S.Africa police fire tear gas at rioting platinum miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Police fire tear gas, rubber bullets at rioting miners<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* One miner dead, eight arrested<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Strike costing company $155 million in lost output so far<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Implats shares drop 3.1 percent<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Feb 16 (Reuters) &#8211; South<br \/>\nAfrican riot police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water<br \/>\ncannon on Thursday at hundreds of striking miners who went on<br \/>\nthe rampage at Impala Platinum&#8217;s Rustenburg plant, the<br \/>\nworld&#8217;s single biggest platinum mine.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>At least 50 officers, backed by armoured vehicles and two<br \/>\nhelicopters, moved into a shanty town near the mine after the<br \/>\nminers torched homes in a dramatic escalation of a month-long<br \/>\nstrike that has hit the company and global platinum prices.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police said one man had been killed overnight after a mob<br \/>\nstripped him naked and beat him during a demonstration outside<br \/>\nthe plant, which accounts for as much as 15 percent of world<br \/>\nplatinum output.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Up to 5,000 miners blocked the road leading to the plant,<br \/>\nwhich lies 120 km (80 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, and<br \/>\nhurled stones at police, provincial police spokeswoman Adele<br \/>\nMyburg said.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Police fire tear gas, rubber bullets at rioting miners * One miner dead, eight arrested * Strike costing company $155 million in lost output so far * Implats shares drop 3.1 percent By Ed Stoddard RUSTENBURG, South Africa, Feb 16 (Reuters) &#8211; South African riot police fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannon [&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-8051","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\/8051","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=8051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}