{"id":13621,"date":"2012-08-18T02:55:44","date_gmt":"2012-08-18T00:55:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-5-mine-bloodbath-shocks-post-apartheid-s-africa\/"},"modified":"2012-08-18T02:55:44","modified_gmt":"2012-08-18T00:55:44","slug":"update-5-mine-bloodbath-shocks-post-apartheid-s-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-5-mine-bloodbath-shocks-post-apartheid-s-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 5-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>* President Zuma says violence &#8220;shocking&#8221;, announces inquiry<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Stunned South Africans question &#8220;culture of violence&#8221;<\/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 TV footage of officers<br \/>\nopening up with automatic weapons on a small group of men in<br \/>\nblankets and t-shirts at Lonmin&#8217;s Marikana platinum plant,<br \/>\nrekindled uncomfortable memories 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 \/>\nin Thursday&#8217;s shootings after officers moved against 3,000<br \/>\nstriking drill operators armed with machetes and sticks at the<br \/>\nmine, 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 * President Zuma says violence &#8220;shocking&#8221;, announces inquiry * Stunned South Africans question &#8220;culture of violence&#8221; * 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 [&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-13621","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\/13621","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=13621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}