Graphic footage leaves widows of mine strike victims weeping

Graphic video footage of South African police shooting dead 34 protesting mine strikers left the victims’ widows weeping inconsolably when it was shown to an official inquest.

The Marikana Commission – which is investigating violence at Lonmin’s platinum mines on August 16 as well as related incidents in which up to 46 people were killed- was disrupted by families’ grief at the video which shows some of the worst state violence since the end of apartheid since 1994.