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Article

7 Feb 2012

Author:
Sowetan [So. Africa]

Woman mineworker raped, killed underground [So. Africa]

A woman employee was reported to have been raped and murdered at AngloPlatinum's Khomanani mine in Rustenburg..."The worker was found violated and dead underground at the mine yesterday afternoon," NUM [National Union of Mineworkers] said in a statement...NUM's general secretary Frans Baleni expressed outrage at the attack. "It is disappointing that women workers have to [risk] being invaded and killed..."