{"id":8053,"date":"2012-02-17T02:07:45","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-at-platinum-mine-riot\/"},"modified":"2012-02-17T02:07:45","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T00:07:45","slug":"s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-at-platinum-mine-riot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/s-africa-police-fire-tear-gas-at-platinum-mine-riot\/","title":{"rendered":"S.Africa police fire tear gas at platinum mine riot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">RUSTENBURG, South Africa<\/span> Feb 16 (Reuters) &#8211; South<br \/>\nAfrican riot police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and a 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.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>A Reuters reporter said at least 50 police, backed by<br \/>\narmoured vehicles and two helicopters, moved into a shanty town<br \/>\nnear the mine after the rioters torched homes and attacked<br \/>\nvehicles. \t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Ed Stoddard; Writing by Ed Cropley; Editing by<br \/>\nJon 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>RUSTENBURG, South Africa Feb 16 (Reuters) &#8211; South African riot police fired rubber bullets, tear gas and a water cannon on Thursday at hundreds of striking miners who went on the rampage at Impala Platinum&#8217;s Rustenburg plant, the world&#8217;s single biggest platinum mine. A Reuters reporter said at least 50 police, backed by armoured vehicles [&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-8053","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\/8053","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=8053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}