South Africa Mine Massacre: Miners Charged with Murdering Themselves -- Time
South Africa state prosecutors investigating the police massacre of 34 striking miners use an apartheid-era law to charge 270 arrested miners with murdering their own colleagues
The decision late Thursday by South Africa‘s state prosecutors to use a notorious apartheid-era law to charge 270 striking miners with the murder of 34 of their colleagues — men who were actually shot dead by the police, as recorded by numerous television crews — marks a bizarre new low in a bloody scandal that threatens to strip the country’s post-apartheid state of what remains of its moral authority.
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Update #1: South African miners charged with murder of colleagues killed by police -- The Guardian
Update #2: S.Africa prosecutors charge miners with murder -- Reuters
Update #3: Miners charged in deaths of 34 killed by police -- AP
My Comment: This will all but guarantee more unrest and strikes in South Africa's mining industry.