silvervigilante.com / By SV / August 16, 2012
Beleaguered platinum mines continue to be disrupted as ongoing scuttles between mine workers, platinum miners and South African police forces continues. On Thursday, South African police opened fire against thousands of striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum, leaving between 7-18 individuals dead. The outbreak of violence occurred as police laying out barricades of barbed wires were outflanked by some of an estimated 3,000 miners amassed on a rocky outcrop near the mine, 100km north-west of Johannesburg.
According to police, discussions with the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union have broken down, “leaving no option but to disperse them by force.”
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