{"id":13606,"date":"2012-08-17T14:54:06","date_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:54:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-4-mine-bloodbath-shocks-post-apartheid-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-08-17T14:54:06","modified_gmt":"2012-08-17T12:54:06","slug":"update-4-mine-bloodbath-shocks-post-apartheid-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-4-mine-bloodbath-shocks-post-apartheid-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 4-Mine &quot;bloodbath&quot; shocks post-apartheid S.Africa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Protesters armed and determined to die &#8211; police chief<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Brutal images shock post-apartheid South Africa<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* President Zuma cuts short Mozambique trip<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* World platinum prices spike, Lonmin shares slump<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Aug 17 (Reuters) &#8211; The police<br \/>\nkilling of 34 striking platinum miners in the bloodiest security<br \/>\noperation since the end of white rule cut to the quick of South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s psyche on Friday, with searching questions asked of its<br \/>\npost-apartheid soul.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Newspaper headlines screamed &#8220;Bloodbath&#8221;, &#8220;Killing Field&#8221;<br \/>\nand &#8220;Mine Slaughter&#8221;, with graphic photographs of heavily armed<br \/>\nwhite and black police officers walking casually past the<br \/>\nbloodied corpses of black men lying crumpled in the dust.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The images, along with Reuters television footage of a<br \/>\nphalanx of officers opening up with automatic weapons on a small<br \/>\ngroup of men in blankets and t-shirts, rekindled uncomfortable<br \/>\nmemories of South Africa&#8217;s racist past.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Police chief Riah Phiyega confirmed 34 dead and 78 injured<br \/>\nafter officers moved in against 3,000 striking drill operators<br \/>\narmed with machetes and sticks and massed on a rocky outcrop at<br \/>\nthe mine, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Protesters armed and determined to die &#8211; police chief * Brutal images shock post-apartheid South Africa * President Zuma cuts short Mozambique trip * World platinum prices spike, Lonmin shares slump By Jon Herskovitz MARIKANA, South Africa, Aug 17 (Reuters) &#8211; The police killing of 34 striking platinum miners in the bloodiest security operation [&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-13606","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\/13606","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=13606"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13606\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}