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Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
Striking miners chant slogans outside a South African mine in Rustenburg on Aug. 15, 2012. Thousands of striking miners armed with machetes and sticks faced off with South African police on Wednesday at Lonmin's Marikana mine after it halted production following the deaths of 10 people in fighting between rival unions. Lonmin, the world's third-largest platinum producer, has threatened to sack 3,000 rock drill operators if they fail to end a wildcat pay strike that started on Friday at Marikana, its flagship mine.
MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — Thousands of angry South African workers met Tuesday on a rocky cliff within sight of their platinum mine shuttered by violent protests, shouting demands for more pay over the roar of circling police and military helicopters. Read More
Siphiwe Sibeko / Reuters
A striking mine worker brandishes his weapons outside a South African mine in Rustenburg on Aug. 15.
Jon Gambrell / AP
Striking miners gather on a hillside at the Lonmin mine near Marikana, South Africa on Aug. 15.
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These people should not strike for livable wages. They should do nothing but sit on their asses...just like Americans do. Oppression, tyranny, Socialism, and Plutocracy is always better than giving up your life for anything as silly as food.
Besides, Americans can now add to their bragging rights that their Nation is the largest 'POULTRY FARM' on the face of this Earth. Makes me proud to be an American...
South African police fired on striking miners, well, didn't President Jan Smuts to the same thing - in the 1920's?!