{"id":8654,"date":"2012-03-07T14:59:15","date_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/03\/one-day-strike-hits-s-africa-mines-grind-to-halt\/"},"modified":"2012-03-07T14:59:15","modified_gmt":"2012-03-07T12:59:15","slug":"one-day-strike-hits-s-africa-mines-grind-to-halt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/one-day-strike-hits-s-africa-mines-grind-to-halt\/","title":{"rendered":"One-day strike hits S.Africa, mines grind to halt"},"content":{"rendered":"

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* World’s No. 4 gold mining company affected<\/span><\/p>\n

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* Protest marches in major cities<\/p>\n

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* Unions sending signal to ruling ANC<\/p>\n

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By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n

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JOHANNESBURG, March 7 (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of
\nSouth Africans joined a one-day national strike on Wednesday,
\nhitting mining production, as the biggest labour group in the
\ncontinent’s largest economy flexed its muscles to remind the
\nruling ANC of its political clout.<\/p>\n

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Gold Fields, the world’s No. 4 producer, said its
\noperations had ground to a halt, with as many as 85 percent of
\nworkers downing tools in response to the call for a strike by
\nthe Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU).<\/p>\n

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Harmony Gold, another major producer, said all of
\nits staff affiliated to the National Union of Mineworkers, South
\nAfrica’s biggest union, had stayed away. Neither company
\nsuffered any impact to their share price.<\/p>\n

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The immediate targets of the strike are new road tolls
\naround Johannesburg, and short-term contract labour agencies
\nthat COSATU says exploit workers and perpetuate the inequalities
\nof apartheid white-minority rule that ended in 1994.<\/p>\n

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“Despite the political and social gains scored since 1994,
\nthe working class in this country continues to reel under the
\npressure of neo-liberalism and the legacy of apartheid and
\ncolonialism,” COSATU said.
\n\u00a0 Continued…<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

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