South Africa police fire teargas as mine unrest spreads

News article: South Africa police fire teargas as mine unrest spreads

News Manager September 3rd, 2012

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - South African police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near Johannesburg on Monday, the latest outbreak in a wave of labor militancy spreading from platinum mining into other parts of the sector. The unrest occurred less than three weeks after police shot dead 34 striking miners at Lonmin's Marikana mine, the bloodiest security incident since the end of white-minority rule in 1994. ...

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By BritinAfrica on September 4th, 2012

Its now coming out that as well as opening fire, police vehicles deliberately drove over prostrate miners who had surrendered.

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/08...in-cold-blood/

By headwards on September 4th, 2012

No wonder South Africans are all moving to New Zealand!

By BritinAfrica on September 4th, 2012

As well as Aussie, and UK. I think this has done the ANC a hell of a lot of damage, it could cost them the next election hopefully.

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