South African polce crackdown strike staff

The world's third largest platinum mine in South Africa, the outbreak of the Police Community bloody conflict, at least 30 deaths. The cause of the tragedy are part of the mine workers were on strike, audibles police forced evictions, they suddenly rushed to the public security, the result was shot and killed. This is a bloody enforcement actions shocked the South African National After the police burst Luanqiang strafing the ground dusty, some fall to the ground. Rui Ma Connor mining area located in the South African big city  about 70 kilometers north, on the 10th the miners in order to pay the strike, on the 16th, about 3 thousand people gathered around the project area, as well as people with a machete, and the scene of the town violent confrontation between the public security formation, discourage miners return to work invalid lay down their knives and weapons, the police began to be expelled to the water column, shock bombs and tear gas, I did not expect when a group of people sprang from the grass, rushed to the police to stop line police immediately returned fire, resulting in more than a dozen casualties.

Bloody suppression of whether law enforcement when the police said, although the Constitution protect freedom of assembly, but this time the miners are unlawful assembly, but also carry weapons wounding shot may not be a means of The fact that the strike also involved in the antagonistic conflict between the two factions of trade unions, has previously resulted in 10 people were killed, including two public security. More radical faction union argued that a monthly salary increase of $ 1,500, but the Mineral Resources Group Takaaki owns this place is mine on the 16th issued a tough statement, claiming that the miners strike is illegal, not to return to work on the 17th, it will be dismissed. The police shot and killed workers, as if a repeat of the 1960-70's white public security on the repression of the anti-apartheid demonstrators scene, shocked South Africa from all walks of life, South African President Zuma also very shocked and regret.

He stressed that beforehand had tried to coordinate the parties to control the situation, also perpetrators of violence to arrest appearing in court. As for the the Takaaki company six days during the strike on a 2% reduction in the annual production of platinum, the London stock market trading stock price also tumbled 6 percent on Thursday.