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The South African police gunned down striking miners, killing some and wounding others, after failing to get protesters to disperse during a strike.
Photograph: Siphiwe Sibeko/Reuters
The Washington Post reports:
Police declined to offer casualty figures after the shooting at the Lonmin PLC mine near Marikana, a dusty town about 70 kilometers (40 miles) northwest of Johannesburg. However, police ministry spokesman Zweli Mnisi acknowledged late Thursday some of the miners there had been killed as more police and soldiers surrounded the hostels and shacks near Lonmin’s shuttered platinum mine.
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Teri
September 3, 2012 at 2:53 pm
This has nothing to do with color ..this is about economics and money. When you threaten capitalisms money black or white the response is violence.
Frances
August 20, 2012 at 9:48 am
What is wrong with this picture? Black men in south Africa killing other Black men? Reminds me of the U.S. what is the south African government of Mandella going to do about it? What in the world is wrong with our people world wide? Do we hate ourselves that much?? That we have no Love and Respect any longer? It breaks my spirit to see the sensless violence, who owns the platinum mine?? Who is running the police dept behind the scenes?? Every African on the continent should strike, if they are not being paid a living wage. Also, Black people in the carribean as well. These people can only get rich if our people keeping working for peanuts.