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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The African National Congress and its governing partners in South Africa on Friday accused mining companies of stirring up union rivalries at the heart of a violent strike that led police to kill 34 striking miners.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa says it will allow fracking to explore for shale gas in the semi-desert Karoo region known for its vast plains and tender lamb.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — Managers of a platinum mine where South African police killed 34 striking workers signed a peace deal Thursday with main labor unions but a breakaway union and the strikers themselves rejected it.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — When Nelson Mandela's great-granddaughter was killed in a June 2010 car crash, her tragic death cast a shadow over the start of the FIFA World Cup, and kept the former president and Nobel Prize winner away from the opening events.

20120908
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MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — Striking miners in South Africa threatened to kill workers and managers in a nearby mine Wednesday unless they joined the crippling work stoppage.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — The platinum mine where South African police killed 34 striking workers says it will not fire any survivors of the shooting but warns the prolonged strike threatens 40,000 jobs.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — In some versions of a story Sept. 3 about ongoing violence surrounding illegal strikes in South Africa, The Associated Press erroneously reported that police and security guards fired rubber bullets and tear gas at sacked gold miners at a Gold Fields mine.

20120905
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South Africa's powerful mineworkers union on Tuesday tried to rein in unrest in the vital mining sector which has turned into a battleground for rival political and labour factions.

20120905
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About 200 miners marched at Lonmin's Marikana platinum mine in South Africa on Tuesday, demanding colleagues stay away from work in the fourth week of a deadly wildcat strike, the company said.

20120904
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A South African court freed the first batches of 270 miners Monday, arrested for the killing of 34 fellow workers who were gunned down by police in a wildcat strike last month.

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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South African police and security guards fired rubber bullets and tear gas Monday at sacked gold miners who were attacking colleagues to block them from working, the mine owner said. Police said four people were wounded at the mine that used to be partially owned by the president's nephew.

20120904
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The world's third largest platinum producer Lonmin warned Monday that a nearly four week strike at its South African mine was threatening 40,000 jobs, as the government moved to calm jitters in the sector.

20120903
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South African courts are due Monday to start releasing 270 miners arrested over the deaths of fellow workers shot by police, after the murder charges against them were provisionally dropped.

20120903
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South Africa said Sunday that controversial murder charges against 270 miners over the deaths of fellow workers shot by police, the worst such clash since the apartheid era, will be provisionally dropped.

20120903
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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — South Africa's top prosecutor announced Sunday that she is withdrawing controversial murder charges against 270 miners for the killings of 34 striking co-workers shot dead by police.

20120902
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South Africa on Saturday buried dozens of mineworkers killed by police last month in the worst crackdown on protests since apartheid.

20120902
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Police in South Africa have uncovered more than 5,000 rounds of ammunition hidden under the pulpit of a Dutch Reformed Church in a town northwest of the country, they said Saturday.

20120901
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Lawyers in South Africa are threatening court action against President Jacob Zuma unless 270 miners, charged with murdering 34 colleagues shot dead by police, are released this weekend.

20120828
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A heavy police contingent guarded platinum giant Lonmin's Marikana mine in South Africa on Tuesday to protect workers who quit a violent wildcat strike in which 44 people have died.

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After a promising weekend turnout of workers at its South African platinum mines, Lonmin expressed hopes more will clock in on Monday as talks resume after violence that claimed 44 lives.