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SAFRICA-MINING-UNION-ANNIVERSARY-FILES
TO GO WITH AFP STORIES BY JOHANNES MYBURG AND SUSAN NJANJI
A file picture taken on September 15, 2012 shows South African police officers arresting a miner in Marikana at Lonmin's platinum mine, seizing traditional weapons after hundreds of workers regrouped in a shantytown near where police shot dead 34 people last month. South Africa will on August 16, 2013 mark a year to the shocking massacre at the Marikana mine faced with a fragile economy, a tainted government and a disquiet labour force. Scenes of the police raining bullets on hundreds of strikers at Lonmin's mine Marikana in the world's richest platinum region northwest of Johannesburg, brought back chilling memories of apartheid brutality. Thousands of hostile miners took to a rocky outcrop and kept a vigil, where six days into the work stoppage, police opened fire when they claimed they were overwhelmed. They shot dead 34 workers in a few minutes. AFP PHOTO / ALEXANDER JOE
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Marikana, SOUTH AFRICA |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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ALEXANDER JOE |
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14 August 2013 |
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3600 x 2604 (1.05 MB) |
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