{"id":27460,"date":"2015-08-05T11:39:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:39:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=27460"},"modified":"2015-08-05T11:39:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T11:39:34","slug":"south-africa-holds-talks-with-mining-firms-over-job-losses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/south-africa-holds-talks-with-mining-firms-over-job-losses\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa holds talks with mining firms over job losses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s government will meet with unions and mining companies on Wednesday to find a way of saving jobs as the industry suffers from weak commodity prices and power shortages, the mining minister said. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s about jobs, jobs, jobs and none of us should leave this place without committing something to the table,&#8221; Ngoako Ramatlhodi told reporters. <\/p>\n<p>Ramatlhodi added that he hoped to be able to lift the suspension imposed this week on Glencore&#8217;s Optimum coal mine if the mining giant met government &#8220;directives&#8221; over job cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Africa&#8217;s government will meet with unions and mining companies on Wednesday to find a way of saving jobs as the industry suffers from weak commodity prices and power shortages, the mining minister said. &#8220;It&#8217;s about jobs, jobs, jobs and none of us should leave this place without committing something to the table,&#8221; Ngoako Ramatlhodi told reporters. Ramatlhodi added that he hoped to be able to lift the suspension imposed this week on Glencore&#8217;s Optimum coal mine if the mining giant met government &#8220;directives&#8221; over job cuts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coal"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27460"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27460\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}