Friday, September 7, 2012

Key South African Mine Union Refuses to Sign 'Peace Accord'


South African miners, arrested after the Marikana shooting, have been released by a Pretoria court while key players refused to sign a deal to end a deadly strike. More than a 100 miners were held in a South African jail after being charged last week under an obscure apartheid-era security law with murdering their fellow miners, after video footage indicated that police had fired on the strikers. On Thursday, a key union representing the strikers as well as other non-unionized workers refused to sign a peace accord to resume wage negotiations, saying that it would force them to end their strike. Al Jazeera's Tania Page reports from Marikana, North West province.

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