Voice of America: South Africa Justice Minister Demands Explanation for Miners' Charge

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South Africa Justice Minister Demands Explanation for Miners' Charge Aug 31st 2012, 15:56 JOHANNESBURG — South Africa's justice minister, Jeff Radebe, has demanded that prosecutors explain why striking miners are being charged with the murder of 34 fellow workers who by all accounts were shot and killed by police. Radebe said the decision by South Africa's National Prosecuting Authority to invoke an apartheid-era legal charge has induced a sense of "shock, panic and confusion." Prosecutors charged the 270 miners involved at the strike at the Lonmin platinun ... Media files: 3EB6A9BC-64FB-43BF-B64F-5EC7B7731BDD_cx0_cy13_cw0_w800_r1.jpg?nocache=1 (image/jpeg, 0 MB)

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