South Africa's Malema Fans Flames of Mine Killings?

Attempts at a memorial service to honour the slain miners denigrated into a political boxing match. This after residents of the settlement next to the Marikana shaft of the Lonmin mine turned to expelled ruling African National Congress youth league leader Julius Malema who blamed the government for the deadly clashes.

One of the women at Wonderkop holds up a sign behind Julius Malema offering a reward for the killing policemen from Messina to Cape Town. Wonderkop, Marikana, North West Province

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