Worker leader Xolani Nzuza briefed the president about events that ended in police shooting dead 34 people last Thursday, and wounding 78.

He told Zuma that the strikers wanted the mine to pay all workers R12,500 a month.

Zuma told the crowd that he had instituted a commission of inquiry to investigate the shooting. It would then present him with a report that would enable him to know who was right and who was wrong.

The leaders requested Zuma to go and inspect the scene where the shooting happened.

When Zuma’s convoy left, the group of workers followed his car anticipating that he would stop at a hill where the miners were shot, but his convoy just drove past. It was not clear whether he would visit the scene later.

Hundreds of striking workers converged on top of the hill around 2.30pm, expecting Zuma to visit the scene of the shooting.

In the week leading up to the shooting, 10 people — including two police officers and two security guards — were killed.

The protests were believed to be linked to rivalry between the National Union of Mineworkers and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union over recognition agreements at the mine. Workers also wanted higher wages. - Sapa

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Aug 22, 2012

lindsay

well the enquiry will show that his friends who would strip and march naked for him and his spear are to blame for the catastrophe
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Aug 22, 2012

cornelius

Did they tell Zuma about the muti they took to protect them against the bullets they knew they would be facing , about their charge on the police, about the fact that, as the El Jazeera footage shows, it was one of them who first fired live ammunition at the police ?
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Aug 22, 2012

Papage

Is this damage control after Malema has spoken
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Aug 22, 2012

2shy2call

Wa bona they want to go to the Hill again Eish. They need tankers this time.
Please Please Please tell Malema to lead the second Hill Protest. This time they need AK 47Ss no more R5s.Spray them like insects Bast@rds.

What happend there. I call it CONFIDENT in the Police force.



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Aug 22, 2012

Dzel

cornelius

Did they tell Zuma about the muti they took to protect them against the bullets they knew they would be facing , about their charge on the police, about the fact that, as the El Jazeera footage shows, it was one of them who first fired live ammunition at the police ?
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Does that justify the cold blooded slaughter of at least 30 individuals by incompetent police using live ammunition?

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Aug 22, 2012

BEAUTYPRINCESS

hhay kodwa the miners...from R4000 to R12000
AND
Why carry spears, knifes, sticks and guns to protest?
May their souls rest in peace
obaba nomalume bethu


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Aug 22, 2012

Tsar-Rasputin

Where in Lomnin is he going, Board Room or the Hill?

Shawara wa re sokodisa
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Aug 22, 2012

Dzel

Princess,

Lonmin clarified that confusion, they claim drillers earn R 10,500 before incentives of R1,000; not R 4,000.

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Aug 22, 2012

BEAUTYPRINCESS

@Dzel
LOL You still around, long time hey!
You good?
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Thanks for info
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Aug 22, 2012

sowet123

sum1 help i no longer understand. Salary increases must be based on percentage (Fact)
Did they unions refused to negotiate 200% salary increase as they strike was also abt unions?

Sometimes strikers are not being reasonable

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