{"id":8288,"date":"2012-02-24T14:34:21","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T12:34:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/02\/implats-contract-worker-beaten-to-death-police\/"},"modified":"2012-02-24T14:34:21","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T12:34:21","slug":"implats-contract-worker-beaten-to-death-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/implats-contract-worker-beaten-to-death-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Implats contract worker beaten to death-police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG<\/span> Feb 24 (Reuters) &#8211; A contract worker at<br \/>\nImpala Platinum&#8217;s troubled Rustenburg operation in<br \/>\nSouth Africa was beaten to death during an assault on Friday<br \/>\nwhen he tried to go to work, police said.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The assault, which left two other workers injured,<br \/>\nunderscores how far the company is from resolving a violent and<br \/>\nillegal labour dispute that has already seen at least two other<br \/>\npeople killed and cost the world&#8217;s second largest platinum<br \/>\nproducer at least 80,000 ounces in lost output.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting and writing by Ed Stoddard, editing by Agnieszka<br \/>\nFlak)<\/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>JOHANNESBURG Feb 24 (Reuters) &#8211; A contract worker at Impala Platinum&#8217;s troubled Rustenburg operation in South Africa was beaten to death during an assault on Friday when he tried to go to work, police said. The assault, which left two other workers injured, underscores how far the company is from resolving a violent and illegal [&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-8288","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\/8288","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=8288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8288\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}