MARIKANA TRAGEDY
Platinum producer Lonmin on Tuesday unveiled its proposed design for a Marikana memorial park and announced the occupation of its infill apartments a day before the fifth anniversary of the Marikana massacre. Thirty-four miners died and at least 70 were injured on August 16, 2012, when police opened fire during a mining strike at the Marikana informal settlement‚ near Rustenburg, in the North West Province, following a week of heightened tensions between the mineworkers and Lonmin management.
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