South Africa to prosecute strikers targeted by police massacre at Marikana

By Alex Lantier; 31 August 2012 – WSWS
http://wsws.org/articles/2012/aug2012/mari-a31.shtml

In an act of naked class justice, the South African National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) is laying bogus murder charges against 270 striking Marikana miners after police massacred 34 of their fellow strikers on August 16.

The African National Congress (ANC) government does not contest that it was police who murdered the 34 striking miners who died that day. However, none of the policemen who committed the murders, or the high-level government officials such as Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega under whose instructions

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