{"id":13581,"date":"2012-08-17T02:51:40","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:51:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-6-south-african-police-shoot-dead-striking-miners\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T02:51:40","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T00:51:40","slug":"update-6-south-african-police-shoot-dead-striking-miners","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-6-south-african-police-shoot-dead-striking-miners\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 6-South African police shoot dead striking miners"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Police open fire on striking miners &#8211; Reuters footage<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* At least a dozen bodies seen lying on ground<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Platinum prices spike higher<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin shares slump to four-year low<\/p>\n<p> (Adds police ministry comment in pars 7-8)<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By John Mkhize<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Aug 16 (Reuters) &#8211; South African<br \/>\npolice opened fire on striking miners armed with machetes and<br \/>\nsticks at Lonmin&#8217;s  Marikana platinum mine on<br \/>\nThursday, killing at least a dozen men in scenes that evoked<br \/>\ncomparisons with apartheid-era brutality.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>In the incident, filmed by Reuters television, officers<br \/>\nopened up with automatic weapons on a group of men who emerged<br \/>\nfrom behind a vehicle and started loping towards police lines.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The volley of bullets threw up clouds of dust, which cleared<br \/>\nto reveal bodies lying on the ground.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>President Jacob Zuma said he was &#8220;shocked and dismayed&#8221; at<br \/>\nwhat appeared to be one of the bloodiest police operations since<br \/>\nthe end of white-minority rule in 1994 in Africa&#8217;s biggest<br \/>\neconomy.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Police open fire on striking miners &#8211; Reuters footage * At least a dozen bodies seen lying on ground * Platinum prices spike higher * Lonmin shares slump to four-year low (Adds police ministry comment in pars 7-8) By John Mkhize MARIKANA, South Africa, Aug 16 (Reuters) &#8211; South African police opened fire on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-13581","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13581\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}