South Africa police fire teargas as mine unrest spreads
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African police fired teargas and rubber bullets to disperse striking miners at a gold mine near Johannesburg on Monday, the latest outbreak in a wave of labour militancy spreading from platinum mining into other parts of the sector. The unrest occurred less than three weeks after police shot dead 34 striking miners at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, the deadliest security incident since the end of white-minority rule in 1994. . . .
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