{"id":8653,"date":"2012-03-07T14:59:14","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/workers-at-s-africas-implats-ignore-strike-call\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T14:59:14","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:59:14","slug":"workers-at-s-africas-implats-ignore-strike-call","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/workers-at-s-africas-implats-ignore-strike-call\/","title":{"rendered":"Workers at S.Africa&#8217;s Implats ignore strike call"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"articleLocation\">JOHANNESBURG, March 7<\/span> (Reuters) &#8211; Workers at Impala<br \/>\nPlatinum, the world&#8217;s second-largest producer of the<br \/>\nprecious metal, ignored calls to join a one-day nationwide<br \/>\nstrike, a senior official said on Wednesday.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tens of thousands of South Africans joined a one-day<br \/>\nnational strike on Wednesday, hitting other mining production,<br \/>\nas the biggest labour group in the continent&#8217;s largest economy<br \/>\nflexed its muscles to remind the ruling ANC of its political<br \/>\nclout.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have not been impacted at all,&#8221; Implats executive Johan<br \/>\nTheron told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Implats is just recovering from a six-week labour-related<br \/>\nstoppage at its Rustenburg mine, the world&#8217;s biggest platinum<br \/>\noperation.\t<\/p>\n<p> (Reporting by Sherilee Lakmidas; Editing by Agnieszka Flak)<\/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, March 7 (Reuters) &#8211; Workers at Impala Platinum, the world&#8217;s second-largest producer of the precious metal, ignored calls to join a one-day nationwide strike, a senior official said on Wednesday. Tens of thousands of South Africans joined a one-day national strike on Wednesday, hitting other mining production, as the biggest labour group in the [&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-8653","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\/8653","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=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}