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Article

17 Sep 2012

Author:
Siphiwe Sibeko, Reuters

South Africa police bar ANC rebel in miner strike crackdown

South African police stopped ANC renegade Julius Malema from addressing striking miners on Monday as the government intensified efforts to contain labor unrest at mines...[There] was still no end in sight to a deadly strike at...Lonmin in which 45 people have died. Strikers also said they would keep shut four mines run by...Anglo American Platinum (Amplats)...Following the government's promise to get tough on strikers and those inciting violence, police...surrounded Malema as he arrived in Marikana...where police shot dead 34 strikers last month...On Monday, police arrested 42 people at a mine owned by RBPlat [Royal Bafokeng Platinum] and Amplats for an illegal strike...The ANC has criticized companies for paying lip service to the mining charter, which seeks to give workers and communities a bigger share of mineral wealth and rectify disparities of white apartheid rule. "Mining remains the bedrock of the South African economy, and yet the abject poverty and squalor surrounding mining areas remains a matter of deep concern," it said... [also refers to Aquarius Platinum, Xstrata]