South Africa Miners

• Police fire at striking mineworkers in South Africa

  Striking miners killed one man by setting him on fire Thursday while another was shot and seriously wounded in rekindled labour unrest in South Africa that saw police firing tear gas and rubber bullets.

• South African police kill two more in crackdown on striking miners

  South African police have killed two more people in a crackdown on striking miners, labour advocates said on Thursday, with the victims being a ruling party municipal councillor who died of injuries from a rubber bullet and a miner who was run over by an armoured car.

• South Africa to withdraw murder charges against miners

  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. The National Union of Metal Workers meanwhile demanded the suspension of the officers responsible for the shootings.

• Higher wage demands spread to other South African mines

  South African President Jacob Zuma on Wednesday told striking miners the nation's leaders are mourning with them but he refused their request that he visit the dusty site where police killed 34 strikers and wounded another 78. The killings have caused outrage and eroded support for the party that brought down apartheid and has governed for the near...

• South Africa Defence Minister says sorry for shot miners

  South Africa's Defence Minister apologised on 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. It was the most deadly display of state violence since apartheid ended in 1994.

• South Africa declares week of mourning after mine shooting tragedy

  South African President Jacob Zuma has declared a week of national mourning from today following the death of 44 striking miners at the Lonmin platinum mine in North West Province last week. Zuma earlier announced a judicial commission of inquiry into the incident in which 36 of the dead were shot by police, allegedly in self-defence.

• Mine 'bloodbath' shocks post-apartheid South Africa

  The police killing of 34 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 searching questions asked of its post-apartheid soul.