Former ANC Leader Embroiled With Mining Company At Heart Of Labor Killings

caption: Cyril Ramaphosa

By GIN, New York
Aug. 20 (GIN) – Tension continues to seethe at a South African platinum mine where striking workers were shot point-blank last week in the worst case of government-sponsored violence since the apartheid era ended in 1994.
 On Aug. 16, 34 people were killed when police opened fire on 3000 striking workers, some of them armed, after a week of violent protests. Another 10 people, including a shop steward from the National Union of Mineworkers, had by then been killed in violent protests at the mine. The strike was started by rock-drill operators at the Marikana platinum-mining complex

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