{"id":2585,"date":"2012-10-07T12:32:29","date_gmt":"2012-10-07T11:32:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.briangreene.com\/bhg\/?p=2585"},"modified":"2012-10-07T12:32:29","modified_gmt":"2012-10-07T11:32:29","slug":"south-africa-miners-the-anc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2012\/south-africa-miners-the-anc\/","title":{"rendered":"south africa miners &#038; the ANC"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='posterous_autopost'>ANC press release <a href=\"http:\/\/www.anc.org.za\/show.php?id=9867\">http:\/\/www.anc.org.za\/show.php?id=9867<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>no mention of the police shooting dead 34 strikers<\/p>\n<p>no mention of the invoking of &#8216;doctrine of common purpose&#8217; apartheid era law where 270 strikers were charged with the murder of the 34 the police had gunned down. (charges later dropped by the police because the lunacy of such a law that the ANC so hated in the 60s, 70s &#038; 80s being used against the workers movement that is traditionally supportive of the ANC) <\/p>\n<p>mentions &#8216;replacement of unions with committees formed around issues&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>mentions centralised bargaining avoided by bosses industry wide, so who is in power in South Africa?<\/p>\n<p>But there is mention of &#8216;conflict to reverse the gains achieved by workers&#8217; while admitting that previously &#8216;the workforce was dismissed and selectively re-employed on lesser conditions&#8217; so no gains there then. <\/p>\n<p>WHAT DOES THE ANC STAND FOR?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANC press release http:\/\/www.anc.org.za\/show.php?id=9867 no mention of the police shooting dead 34 strikers no mention of the invoking of &#8216;doctrine of common purpose&#8217; apartheid era law where 270 strikers were charged with the murder of the 34 the police had gunned down. (charges later dropped by the police because the lunacy of such a law&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/2012\/south-africa-miners-the-anc\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">south africa miners &#038; the ANC<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2585"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2586,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2585\/revisions\/2586"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briangreene.com\/bhg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}