{"id":14068,"date":"2012-08-31T03:29:24","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/08\/update-3-s-africa-prosecutors-charge-miners-with-murder\/"},"modified":"2012-08-31T03:29:24","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T01:29:24","slug":"update-3-s-africa-prosecutors-charge-miners-with-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-3-s-africa-prosecutors-charge-miners-with-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 3-S.Africa prosecutors charge miners with murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Experts say measure not used since apartheid times<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Say charges inflame already tense situation<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Talks resume to get workers back next week<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Mines minister says unrest could hit investment<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard and Jon Herskovitz<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South African prosecutors<br \/>\non Thursday charged 270 striking miners with murder of 34<br \/>\nco-workers seen being shot dead in a hail of police bullets<br \/>\ncaptured in videos broadcast around the world.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Prosecution have filed papers invoking a measure called<br \/>\n&#8220;common purpose&#8221; seldom used since the dying days of apartheid,<br \/>\narguing the miners were complicit in the killings since they<br \/>\nwere arrested at the scene with weapons.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Legal experts said the move will likely collapse when a<br \/>\ncourt hearing bail applications for the 270 near the mine<br \/>\nresumes sessions next week and lambasted prosecutors for<br \/>\ninflaming a tense situation by seeking a mass indictment that<br \/>\nwill eventually be rejected.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is bizarre and shocking and represents a flagrant<br \/>\nabuse of the criminal justice system in an effort to protect the<br \/>\npolice and\/or politicians,&#8221; Pierre de Vos, a law expert at the<br \/>\nUniversity of Cape Town, wrote in a blog entry.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Experts say measure not used since apartheid times * Say charges inflame already tense situation * Talks resume to get workers back next week * Mines minister says unrest could hit investment By Ed Stoddard and Jon Herskovitz JOHANNESBURG, Aug 30 (Reuters) &#8211; South African prosecutors on Thursday charged 270 striking miners with murder [&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-14068","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\/14068","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=14068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14068\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}