{"id":14192,"date":"2012-09-03T03:36:48","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:36:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/09\/update-2-s-africa-withdraws-miners-murder-charges-for-now\/"},"modified":"2012-09-03T03:36:48","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T01:36:48","slug":"update-2-s-africa-withdraws-miners-murder-charges-for-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/update-2-s-africa-withdraws-miners-murder-charges-for-now\/","title":{"rendered":"UPDATE 2-S.Africa withdraws miners&#8217; murder charges for now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Charges sparked public outrage<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Miners could face charges again when probes complete<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Killing of 34 miners by police evokes apartheid era<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Lonmin&#8217;s mines been idle for three weeks<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Ed Stoddard<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>JOHANNESBURG, Sept 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South African prosecutors<br \/>\nprovisionally withdrew murder charges on Sunday against 270<br \/>\nminers who had been accused of killing 34 striking colleagues<br \/>\nshot dead by police, but said they could be recharged when<br \/>\ninvestigations are complete.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Public anger had been mounting at the charges, made under an<br \/>\napartheid-era law under which the miners were deemed to have had<br \/>\na &#8220;common purpose&#8221; in the murder of their co-workers.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The police killing of the strikers last month at the<br \/>\nMarikana mine, run by platinum producer Lonmin ,<br \/>\nwas the worst such security incident since the end of white rule<br \/>\nin 1994, and recalled scenes of state brutality from that era.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Final charges will only be made once all investigations<br \/>\nhave been completed. The murder charges against the current 270<br \/>\nsuspects will be formally withdrawn provisionally in court,&#8221;<br \/>\nNomgcobo Jiba, the acting national director of prosecutions,<br \/>\nsaid in a televised news conference.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Charges sparked public outrage * Miners could face charges again when probes complete * Killing of 34 miners by police evokes apartheid era * Lonmin&#8217;s mines been idle for three weeks By Ed Stoddard JOHANNESBURG, Sept 2 (Reuters) &#8211; South African prosecutors provisionally withdrew murder charges on Sunday against 270 miners who had been [&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-14192","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\/14192","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=14192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14192\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}