silvervigilante.com / By SV /Let’s face it – the platinum miners who charged at police at one of the world’s biggest platinum mines this month must’ve known that they were going to get blow to sh*t. But, at the same time, for rock bottom wages, these miners tread 2 miles into the earth in order to mine platinum, having to move 10 tons of dirt for the rich man’s gold. So, perhaps therein lies a reason for their cracking and subsequent attack on police.
But the news in the wake of the event that 270 miners who were also on scene will be charged with the murders sounds like a Monty Python curveball of fiction. But, sometimes truth is stranger than fiction. Indeed, the police killing of 34 strikers in South Africa has resulted in the charging of 270 miners with the murder of their colleagues. South Africa’s justice minister said on Friday that the decision had caused “shock, panic and confusion” among South Africans. The killing of strikers at the Marikana mine earlier in the month represents one of the worst incidents since the end of white rulership in 1994.
Prosecutors said they have invoked the “common purpose” measure due to the fact that the miners were at the scene with weapons and therefore complicit in the killings. Members of the government’s Human Rights Commission questioned if the prosecutors knew the law. The law dates from the apartheid era under which they are deemed to have had a “common purpose” in the murder of their co-workers.
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