Quarter of miners return to work after fatal clashes
Mine owner Lonmin had threatened about 3,000 striking workers with dismissal if they did not show up at Marikana, 100km northwest of Johannesburg, where 34 miners armed with spears, machetes and handguns were gunned down in a hail of police fire on Thursday.
Ten people were killed prior to the police shooting, including a shop steward from the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM), the country’s biggest union, who was hacked to death.
