Striking South African mine workers listen to their union representatives. South African gold miners have ended their strike after signing a pay deal, which has arranged for increase in their salaries. “Members have accepted a new pay structure,” South Africa’s National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) said in a statement on Thursday, AFP reported. The Chamber of Mines confirmed that the miners... 

Thousands of miners of South Africa’s strike-hit platinum belt gather for a rally South Africa’s government has opened a judicial commission of inquiry into the fatal shootings of 44 people during strikes at Marikana mine. The panel, appointed by South African President Jacob Zuma, will investigate the roles played by the police, the management of the platinum mine, Lonmin and the unions and... 

South African workers arrested after a shooting at a platinum mine have been charged with killing 34 of their colleagues, despite confirmation that police committed the murders. The officers, who did not deny using guns, face no charges. ­The Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, in the country’s North West province, made headlines on August 16, when protesters, who demanded their wages be raised... 

South African policemen turn guns on dead bodies of miners. South African riot police opened fire on striking miners armed with machetes and sticks at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine, killing 34 men in the deadliest episode of a week of union violence. Heavily armed officers backed by armored vehicles were laying out barbed wire barricades when they were outflanked by some of the estimated...