Shame, shame, shame

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An eerie silence hung over Lonmin’s Marikana mine this morning after deadly clashes between the police and protesters yesterday left at least 30 dead and over 80 injured. The area seemed quiet, except for police clustered at the bottom of a hill where striking miners had established their base before yesterday’s massacre. This was in stark contrast to yesterday sounds of screaming, moaning, shouting – and gunshots. Police opened fire on striking miners who charged a line of officers trying to disperse them, killing some and wounding others in the worst shootings by authorities since the end of the apartheid era. The shooting happened after police failed to get the striking miners to hand over machetes, clubs and other weapons. Read more : http://www.iol.co.za/the-star/the-hill-of-horror-1.1364979#.UC558aP8-7o

INLSA FATAL CLASH: The bodies of some of Lonmin s striking mineworkers lie on the ground near Wonderkop informal settlement after police officers opened fire on the workers, who they say charged at them, near Rustenburg yesterday. Pictures: Phill Magakoe

A. Cuvelier