Mine "bloodbath" Shocks Post-apartheid South Africa

A protester licks his spear outside a South African mine in RustenburgMARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) – The killing by police of more than 30 striking platinum miners in the bloodiest security operation since the end of white rule cut to the quick of South Africa's psyche on Friday, with people and the media questioning its post-apartheid soul. Newspaper headlines screamed "Bloodbath", "Killing Field" and "Mine Slaughter", with graphic photographs of heavily armed white and black police officers walking casually past the bloodied corpses of black men lying crumpled in the dust. …

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