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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 August 31, 2012 shows Lonmin mineworkers paying their last respects in front of the coffin containing the body of Mpuzeni Ngxande, one of the 34 striking miners that was killed by the police on August 16, in front of the rocky outcrop where the men were shot, an informal settlement near the Lonmin mine in Marikana, North-West Province. 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 / RODGER BOSCH
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Rustenburg, SOUTH AFRICA |
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AFP / Mediafax Foto |
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RODGER BOSCH |
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14 August 2013 |
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4256 x 2832 (1.29 MB) |
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