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South African miners continue to resist and refuse to fade away.

05 Wednesday Sep 2012

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More than 1,000 striking South African miners are demonstrating at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, where police shot dead 34 of their colleagues last month. Dozens of police have arrived at the scene while a helicopter hovers above the protesting rock-drill operators.

One man at the front of the column waved a placard reading “We want 12,500 or nothing else” Another protester said the demonstrators were heading to Lonmin’s nearby Karee mine to “take out the people who are working in the mine shaft”. 

Surely Lomin must realise that increasing wages is cheaper than fighting a strike and the business disruption it brings. As comrades have already died for this cause this will not or should not simply fade away.

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Miners charged under ‘common purpose’ law from Apartheid era.

31 Friday Aug 2012

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270 miners have now been charged with the murder of 34 of their colleagues who were shot by the police two week s ago in what has become known as the “Marikana  massacre”.

The best known case of the use “common purpose” doctrine was that of the “Upington 14”, who were sentenced to death in 1989 for the murder of a policeman even though the judge acknowledged that they did not carry out the killing.

We will wait and see what the backlash from this will be.

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Tensions as South Africa miners continue strikes

27 Monday Aug 2012

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Hundreds of defiant miners have regrouped for a protest near the spot where South African police killed 34 of their colleagues, as platinum giant Lonmin said less than a quarter of employees had shown up for work.

Preliminary figures are 13 per cent average attendance across all shafts this morning. There have been incidents of intimidation towards bus drivers overnight as well as intimidation of… workers this morning, preventing them from coming to work

– Platinum giant Lonmin

This comes as Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, is under increased pressure to manage the situation amid calls from some sectors that he should not be re-eleted to the head of the country’s ruling party in December.

Strikers gathered on Monday in an open space, just metres from where police shot dead 34 of their colleagues on August 16. Earlier strike violence in the area had claimed the lives of 10 other people, including two policemen.

Police in armoured trucks kept a close watch over the crowd, as tensions and fears remained high following the deadly unrest. A miner from Lesotho told the AFP news agency.

We are aware that some people have gone back to work, we have noted that behaviour, and we need to come up with a plan to deal with them. By going to work they are say[ing] the murder that happened here was in vain, and they are fine with it.”

South Africa’s police watchdog on Monday was probing complaints that officers had beaten and injured platinum workers arrested after the police shooting.

 

Autopsy reports on most of dead meanwhile showed they had been shot from behind, a local newspaper reported on Monday.

The post-mortem reports indicate that most of the people were fleeing from the police when they got killed A lot of them were shot in the back and the bullets exited through their chests,

 

via Tensions as S Africa miners continue strikes – Africa – Al Jazeera English.

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Another Mining Disaster ends in Tragedy

28 Wednesday Sep 2011

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Kellingley Pit, North Yorkshire was at the centre of another mining tragedy; one of the two trapped miners has died, with the other serioulsy ill in hospital. 

Condolences and thoughts to the families concerned.

 

 

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Sad News from Gleision Colliery.

16 Friday Sep 2011

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It is tragic news that one of the four at Gleision Colliery near Cilybebyll, Pontardawe, has been found dead, but has yet to be identified. The four miners; Charles Breslin, 62; David Powell, 50; and Garry Jenkins, 39, from the Swansea Valley; and Phillip Hill, 45, of Neath, have been now trapped 90m below ground for 24 hours, despite valiant efforts to rescue them.

It is easy that to forget that there are people who work in potential dangerous enviroments because they need to earn a living. Mining was once a proud industry of this country until Thatcher chose to close the mines and import coal rather than invest in our industrial heritage.

My thoughts are with our working comrades and their families.

 

 

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