20120827
AFP
Hundreds of athletes on Sunday ran a marathon to mark half a century since the arrest of South Africa's democracy icon Nelson Mandela for his anti-apartheid struggle.

20120826
AFP
Grieving South Africans have started burying the 44 victims of the Lonmin platinum mine killings, with three funerals held on Saturday, one of them in the mining town of Marikana.

20120825
AFP
Platinum giant Lonmin said Friday it was committed to reaching a deal within days to end a labour dispute that has killed 44 people at a South African mine as authorities revived mediation efforts.

20120822
AFP
Platinum giant Lonmin eased off its threat to fire miners who failed to return to work Tuesday, as South Africa identified the last of the 44 people killed during a wildcat strike.

20120822
AP
MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — South Africa's defense minister apologized Tuesday to angry miners who held up plastic packets of bullet casings, the first government official to beg forgiveness for the police shootings that killed 34 striking miners, wounded another 78 and shocked the nation.

20120822
AP
MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — At the dusty site of the last week's police shootings in South Africa that killed 34 miners and wounded 78, hundreds of mourners walked barefoot Tuesday as church leaders blessed the ground, with a Methodist bishop drawing a large cross in the dirt.

20120822
AFP
South Africa's police are accused of apartheid-like brutality after killing 34 miners but have yet to face any official sanction in a violent society where officers themselves risk being slaughtered.

20120821
AP
MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — No striking miners will be fired in the week that South Africa officially mourns the killings of 44 men at a platinum mine, including 34 strikers shot by police, a spokesman for the presidency told The Associated Press on Tuesday.

20120821
AFP
An arrest warrant was issued for a grandson of Nelson Mandela on Monday after he failed to appear in court for not paying maintenance to his first wife, local media reported.

20120821
AFP
A South African court Monday convicted the last of 20 men accused of high treason for a plot to kill Nelson Mandela and drive blacks out of the country, in a trial that spanned nearly a decade.

20120821
AFP
Platinum giant Lonmin on Monday reopened its South African mine where 44 people have been killed in a wildcat strike, and gave workers another day to come back to the job.

20120821
AFP
Women chanted and danced on the dusty road, hoping to catch a glimpse of their husbands, fathers or sons who face charges of public violence and even murder after the Marikana mine killings.

20120821
AP
MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — Striking miners remained defiant Monday, four days after police shot to death 34 of their compatriots, with at least half the strikers staying off the job and dozens of others singing in a paddy wagon on their way to court.

20120821
AFP
Six of the 34 people shot dead by South African police in an illegal miners' strike have not yet been identified, four days after the deadliest crackdown since apartheid, the government said Monday.

20120818
AFP
South African President Jacob Zuma announced Friday a probe into the deaths of 34 miners in a police crackdown on a wildcat strike, in the deadliest protest since apartheid.

20120818
AP
MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — Frantic wives searched for missing loved ones, President Jacob Zuma rushed home from a regional summit and some miners vowed a fight to the death Friday as police announced a shocking casualty toll from the previous day's shooting by officers of striking miners: 34 dead and 78 wounded.

20120818
AFP
The fatal police shooting of 34 striking miners sends a negative message to investors in Africa's biggest economy, as it tries to fight widespread joblessness and poverty, analysts said Friday.

20120818
AFP
A bomb blast in the volatile central Nigerian city of Jos has injured a civilian and damaged a police station as well as nearby houses, an army spokesman said on Friday.

20120818
AFP
A hundred women danced in a dirt road Friday, singing protest songs amid ramshackle wooden and corrugated metal shacks sitting over one of the world's richest platinum deposits.

20120818
AFP
Lonmin, the world's number three platinum producer, on Friday pledged to help identify and bury 34 mineworkers killed by police during a protest over wages, the deadliest since the end of apartheid.