The unidentified body of a man in black clothes found in Nkaneng informal settlement in Marikana by a television crew was lying face down with two deep cuts at the back of the neck.

"I saw the body but we did not turn it over to see who it was. Our leaders have warned us to stay away from the body," said a striking miner who did not want to be named.

The body was found in the afternoon as the miners returned from their march to the local Andrew Saffy Memorial Hospital, where they were met by a strong contingent of police forming a barricade, preventing them from reaching the hospital.

One of the workers' leaders, Loyiso Mtsheketshe, said they had wanted to instruct the hospital to stop discharging injured miners into police custody.

Armed miners prevented journalists and photographers from getting closer to the body.

"I can confirm that a body of a man was found 300 metres away from where the miners usually meet, on the western side of the koppie," said police spokesman Brigadier Thulani Ngubane.

Ngubane said the man, wearing black pants, appeared to have been hit with a sharp object at the back of his head.

He said police were at the scene and it was not known what had happened to the man.

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Sep 12, 2012

|Sinudeity|

Dont let the international media hear about this one. Might just realise how savage these miners actually are.
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Sep 12, 2012

Chichi7

Close the damn mine and see what these hooligans will do for a living. Am just tired of this.
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Sep 12, 2012

Ompas

People are very quick to to talk about brutality of the police but no one will make a noise about this poor man.
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Sep 12, 2012

Papage

Is there any way to solve this madness? the fact that some want to work and others says no, people will continue killing each other
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Sep 12, 2012

MommaC

It is like a more vicious version of Lord of the Flies - only with grown men
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Sep 12, 2012

Eraser

@Chichi7
@Ompas

true this miners r cruel, they should close the mine, this killings wont stop.

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Sep 12, 2012

pierre2012

The miners have a right to ask for salary increase but THEY HAVE NO RIGHT TO K.ILL others just for money!! They are idio.ts, blood,y murd.erers who should be handled with an iron-fist!!! If they are not happy with payment, they may resign and look for better jobs. Moving all over the place with mache.tes, gu.ns, sticks, etc is uncouth!!!!!!!!!!!
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Sep 12, 2012

pierre2012

@ Sinudeity|
Dont let the international media hear about this one. Might just realise how savage these miners actually are.
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I saw it on Aljzeera this morning!!!!!!!!!
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Sep 12, 2012

PapaTshego

I would really like to hear what Juju will say about this killing. There was too much noise about police killing the miners but nothing is being said about miners killing other miners!
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Sep 12, 2012

Kaylae

So they are k!lling dedicated people who have responsibilities towards their families.and when the police intervene Mthethwa and Zuma sent them to k!ll this is utter nonsense mxm(nigerian accent).Who gives them the right to panga people who doesn't want to engage in their strike retards
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