{"id":89793,"date":"2019-02-12T09:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T07:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mobserver.co.za\/?p=89793"},"modified":"2019-02-12T15:35:39","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T13:35:39","slug":"two-sides-gloria-coin-rescue-pay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/news-headlines\/2019\/02\/12\/two-sides-gloria-coin-rescue-pay\/","title":{"rendered":"The two sides to the Gloria coin – rescue or pay!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Their homes and cars are being repossessed, they can\u2019t pay their bills, have no food or electricity.
\nAnd they are demanding to be paid.<\/p>\n

While the top brass are doing everything in their power to keep everyone happy, they have a shaft full of trapped cable thieves on the one hand and hundreds of starving, honest and hard working employees expecting pay, on the other.<\/p>\n

Also read:\u00a0Update: 6 recovered from Gloria Mine<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

The rescue operation will cost the mine millions, an expense to add to their list.<\/p>\n

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Mr Mike Elliot from Gloria Mine informed\u00a0www.mobserver.co.za<\/b>\u00a0that after a meeting in Pretoria yesterday, they are hoping to restore electricity on the surface, which will lead to the ventilation of the shaft. Once this is done, rescue teams can enter the shaft and evaluate the state of the shaft in a step by step process, to determine the level of damage caused by the blast.<\/p>\n

Also read:<\/strong>\u00a0Number of trapped people in mineshaft increases<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Their employees, however, feel that if money is to be spent, then it should be on their salaries.<\/p>\n

After the recovery of six people, the rescue operation has been standing still.<\/p>\n

Out of the six recovered, only one man survived, and is currently in police custody.
\nHe will be appearing in the Blinkpan Periodical Court on charges of trespassing.<\/p>\n

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The individuals under the employment of the Gloria Coal mine have not been paid for the last four months.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8164,"featured_media":89794,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"hasGravity":false,"cxt_article_byline":"Sjani Campher","cxt_disable_google_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,2],"tags":[16492,16489,16493,16488,10010,12898,16490,16491,10333],"class_list":["post-89793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news-headlines","tag-bankruptcy-of-gloria-mine-hinders-rescue-efforts","tag-explosion-at-gloria-mine-leaves-cable-thieves-trapped","tag-gloria-mine-employees-demand-pay-before-rescue","tag-gloria-mineshaft-blast","tag-local-news","tag-middelburg-news","tag-rescue-operations-at-gloria-mine","tag-rescue-operations-at-gloria-mine-hindered-by-debt","tag-trusted-news"],"category_labels":{"Category":"News","SubCategory":"Local news"},"tag_labels":["bankruptcy of gloria mine hinders rescue efforts","explosion at gloria mine leaves cable thieves trapped","gloria mine employees demand pay before rescue","gloria mineshaft blast","local news","middelburg news","rescue operations at gloria mine","rescue operations at gloria mine hindered by debt","trusted news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8164"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89793\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/89794"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/develop.citizen.co.za\/middelburg-observer\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}