Miners Shot Down

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It's the 16th of August 2012 outside the London platinum mine America in South Africa

a 112 striking miners are shot down by police 34 die like many other South Africans.

The shooting shook me to the core Events like

this took me back to the massacres of apartheid sharp filled

1960 sweater 1976 killings like these led South Africans to support

Nelson Mandela and the struggle for

freedom but today these miners are being shot at by a new government to ensure that

it's business as usual we could see that lives were now being

sacrificed for money and the young democracy we had so much hope for was under threat

This is not a day.

Talk pushing play it is a day for us to mourn together as a nation it is

also a day to start rebuilding and healing the zaps the only nice to

advance a situation such as police members had to employ force to protect themselves from

the charging port Is there time for time for

the sin and death moment we'll

CDN2 the Americana commission

of inquiry has set for over a year South Africans watch in a state of shock.

Half the police being honest in their account.

No they have not the big question remains.

Who sanctioned deobda to use live ammunition against

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August 2012

allegedly illegal governing by rock drum operators.

It six days before the massacre.

The mining company London is filming the miners as I gathered outside

the mind alone means security guard reports everything he sees group

allegedly wants to march the opposite devoting there's

PQ management with regards to salary and certain faculty

to write things up and back up to see if we can stop the grout also

writing feedback from senior management you have regards

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A crowd of rock jewelers meet a march to

the Longman Management Office they believe the official majority unions

the National Union of Mineworkers are in the pockets of

management and so they've decided to take matters into

their own hands they are joined by workers from a competing Union Scotland and England.

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app The average take-home pay of rock drillers is

5 thousand South African wrong the equivalent of 500 Euros dollars this condemns

them to poverty that he say

mining companies like Longmen view

higher wages as the biggest threat to the continued health of

the business Longmen is a British company

which started drilling for platinum in South Africa 30 years ago it employs

28 thousand people exporting

the world's most precious metal out of the country And around the globe.

The company has spent large sums of money on a massive program of expansion.

Leaving it financially vulnerable.

The prospect of a long strike was the last thing they wanted.

We experienced a group of workers who studied matching from

the Warner Pop area to us displays which we call

LPD These are the people who defined mining if they don't drill.

There's no mining. So if they are not that web it becomes obvious.

They matched until the four-way junction which is a profitability year

And at that point obviously that's when the security engaged them and at

no point did this group of employees

demonstrate they had anything to present a couple of months previously

London admit directly with

that same struck committee to discuss the grievances yet now they wouldn't talk to them

why

the

story of the Americana massacre.

Would be incomplete.

Without a close look at the involvement of

civil ram opposer I had watched him with admiration He built the largest trade union

the country had ever seen

the National Union of Mineworkers under serums

leadership Nome Saw the miners join the fight against apartheid.

And I took my place marching side-by-side behind their banner.

It must be remembered that it was

the mining industry and specifically the Chamber of mine which pioneered

the most oppressive features of

apartheid South

Africa

Mine workers

have always had to put up with harsh living and working conditions.

So Rama posa was determined to change this.

Under his leadership workers were led into

mass strikes and direct confrontation with the white mine owners.

He was for me a vital and important person in the birth of

the new South Africa there's no such thing as a liberal bourgeois they're all the same.

They use fascist levels to destroy workers

lives He soon became

a leading member of the African National Congress and from

this position joined the Black economic elite ram opposed.

Who once or South Africa's working class as a force to bringing about change.

Now found himself on the other side of the table at the time as the massacre.

He was a board member of long mainland.

We've gone through our waves of starts and we always have strikes.

Because we have such a robust democratic system that allows

workers to express themselves and people should never be alarmed.

This is the South African way And we need to accept

that workers will voice their dissatisfaction.

Through withdrawing their labour.

What we are against is that.

Quite a number of those strikes have tended to ten violent.

That is one behavior pattern that we need to get out of our system

Ironically the National Union of Mineworkers num the powerful union which

saw Arama pose a one-slide was still the majority Union inside their minds.

But in the lead up to the long range strike gnome head refuse to address

the low wages of their members and when London management talked to

workers that they would only negotiate says

the majority union the workers decided to go back to nums office

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The president or the general secretary of the local branch I forget which decided

that he would hand her weapons to each of

the 30 people who were there and they handle their pingers and spears.

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denies any of their members attack workers and insist that they branch leadership.

We're acting in self-defense.

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are under threat to their lives and our office and outlet

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said that as an Ngram would believe that those people

in that circumstances found themselves and we'll end

with one condemn what they did in many respects that was

a complete turning point because up until that point That beam.

Very little violence I'm not saying there wasn't any violence.

People said was a bit of intimidation I really don't know about

it but no one was being killed.

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Every time the miners gather

the Longmen security guard keeps a keen eye on them After the shootings.

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no direct greatest maturity as a reaction to

numb shooting at their own members the conflict grows Longmen rock tutors from

the nearby carry shaft join the strike in numbers they belong

to the competing union the association of construction and mine workers union.

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