GA-RANKUWA, South Africa, Sept 3 (Reuters) – South Africa
released on Monday the first of 270 miners detained more than
two weeks ago after police shot dead 34 of their colleagues in a
bid to break up a wildcat strike at Lonmin’s Marikana
platinum mine.
The men were charged last week under an obscure
apartheid-era security law with murdering their fellow miners,
although state prosecutors withdrew the charges at the weekend
following a public outcry.
The Aug. 16 shootings were the deadliest security incident
since the end of white-minority rule in 1994.
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