{"id":13844,"date":"2012-08-24T03:08:38","date_gmt":"2012-08-24T01:08:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-1-south-africans-mourn-victims-of-platinum-mine-carnage\/"},"modified":"2012-08-24T03:08:38","modified_gmt":"2012-08-24T01:08:38","slug":"update-1-south-africans-mourn-victims-of-platinum-mine-carnage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-1-south-africans-mourn-victims-of-platinum-mine-carnage\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 1-South Africans mourn victims of platinum mine carnage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Memorial at &#8220;Hill of Horror&#8217; where police killed 34 miners<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Zuma faces political pressure over pay, policing<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* AMCU stages rally after memorial, calls for wage increases<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Industry fears contagion throughout S.Africa mines<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By David Dolan<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Aug 23 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africans<br \/>\nheld a memorial service on Thursday at a mine where police shot<br \/>\ndead 34 strikers, bloodshed that revived memories of<br \/>\napartheid-era violence and laid bare workers&#8217; anger over<br \/>\nenduring inequalities since the end of white rule.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Some 500 people crammed into a marquee pitched at the<br \/>\nplatinum mine, near what has been dubbed the &#8220;Hill of Horror&#8221;<br \/>\nwhere police opened fire on striking miners in the deadliest<br \/>\nsecurity incident since apartheid ended in 1994.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Crowds spilled out into the scorched, dusty fields outside,<br \/>\nlistening to hymns and prayers. Women wrapped in blankets wept<br \/>\nand mourners placed flowers at the scene. Other memorials took<br \/>\nplace around the country, including in downtown Johannesburg.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Such a killing of people, of children, who haven&#8217;t done<br \/>\nanything wrong and they didn&#8217;t have to die this way,&#8221; said Baba<br \/>\nGoloza whose two sons died. He blamed mine owner Lonmin<br \/>\n for not taking care of its workers at its Marikana mine,<br \/>\nnorthwest 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>* Memorial at &#8220;Hill of Horror&#8217; where police killed 34 miners * Zuma faces political pressure over pay, policing * AMCU stages rally after memorial, calls for wage increases * Industry fears contagion throughout S.Africa mines By David Dolan MARIKANA, South Africa, Aug 23 (Reuters) &#8211; South Africans held a memorial service on Thursday at [&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-13844","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\/13844","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=13844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13844\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}