South Africa mourns Lonmin miners

Grieving South African families were mourning today at memorial services for 34 striking miners killed by police, as a nation in shock asked who gave the orders and who must be blamed.

The relative of one those killed in last week's shootings at the Lonmin mine near Marikana, a town about 40 miles north west of Johannesburg, said that he wants to see some arrests.

Ubuntu Akumelisine told the AP: "If it were me I'd want everyone who was involved in this incident including the mine managers to be arrested, the whole lot of them, because a person's life is not worth money."

Memorial services were being held today across the country for South Africans to honour all those killed violently in a country with one of the world's highest murder and rape rates.