South Africa: Mine Workers Continue to Protest

Author:
Al Jazeera English
Publisher:
Aljazeera English
Publication Date:
18 August 2012
Tags:
South Africa, Legal and Judicial Affairs, Mining, Governance, Labour

Striking mine workers have rallied in South Africa, where police shot and killed 34 of their colleagues three days ago. Officers say they acted in self defence. But others say it was a massacre of the kind not seen since the end of Apartheid - and want President Jacob Zuma to resign. Al Jazeera'a Erica Wood reports.

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