{"id":8647,"date":"2012-03-07T14:59:09","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/update-1-one-day-strike-hits-s-africa-mines-grind-to-halt\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T14:59:09","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:59:09","slug":"update-1-one-day-strike-hits-s-africa-mines-grind-to-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-one-day-strike-hits-s-africa-mines-grind-to-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-One-day strike hits S.Africa, mines grind to halt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* World&#8217;s No. 4 gold mining company affected<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Protest marches in major cities<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Unions sending signal to ruling ANC<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, March 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Tens of thousands of<br \/>\nSouth Africans staged a one-day national strike on Wednesday,<br \/>\nhitting mining production, as the biggest labour group in the<br \/>\ncontinent&#8217;s largest economy flexed its muscles to remind the<br \/>\nruling ANC of its political clout.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Gold Fields, the world&#8217;s No. 4 producer, said its<br \/>\noperations had ground to a halt, with as many as 85 percent of<br \/>\nworkers downing tools in response to the call for a strike by<br \/>\nthe Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Harmony Gold, another major producer, said all<br \/>\nstaff affiliated to the National Union of Mineworkers, South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s biggest union, had stayed away. Neither company<br \/>\nsuffered any impact to their share price.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Coal mining also took a hit, with the local unit of mining<br \/>\ngiant Anglo American reporting a &#8220;significant&#8221; number of<br \/>\nstrikers, although the platinum sector was largely unaffected.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The immediate targets of the strike are new road tolls<br \/>\naround Johannesburg, and short-term contract labour agencies<br \/>\nthat COSATU says exploit workers and perpetuate the inequalities<br \/>\nof the white-minority apartheid rule that ended in 1994.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* World&#8217;s No. 4 gold mining company affected * Protest marches in major cities * Unions sending signal to ruling ANC By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, March 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Tens of thousands of South Africans staged a one-day national strike on Wednesday, hitting mining production, as the biggest labour group in the continent&#8217;s largest economy [&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-8647","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\/8647","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=8647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8647\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}