Lonmin miners start marching (Armed again!!!!!)

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Sneeky

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Just look at the image from today!
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So we all know there is a lot of hard negotiating on the mining front between mining companies and the work force, Unions fighting with each other and so on.
All of this going on against the backdrop of the horrible events not to long ago that resulted in many people loosing their lives and an international outcry.

Today another march, with workers again carrying weapons!!
I'm mean really this has to stop. How can it be acceptable in a modern society and democracy?

Exercise your constitutional right to protest, but do so within the framework of the law, PLEASE!

I cannot be sympathetic to a cause if people get hurt in instances like this. Police are placed in an impossible situation of maintaining law and order where standard crowd control methods (non violent) would normally work should emotions get the better of those participating in the march.


http://www.ewn.co.za/2012/09/05/Lonmin-workers-start-marching
 
Obviously they didnt shoot enough of them the first time round :mad:
 
// looks for bunny
:twisted:

I have a carrot!! here bunny bunny!!
 
Sneeky said:
Today another march, with workers again carrying weapons!!
I'm mean really this has to stop. How can it be acceptable in a modern society and democracy?
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It's not acceptable in a modern society and democracy... but we're not in a modern society and democracy.
 
http://www.timeslive.co.za/local/2012/09/05/marikana-strikers-threaten-to-kill-lonmin-management

Marikana miners have threatened to kill Lonmin management unless they stop operations at the platinum mine in North West.

The threat was made by representatives of hundreds of protesting workers who marched to Lonmin's Karee mine, from Marikana on Wednesday.

The five representatives told manager Jan Thiroun that management had Wednesday and Thursday to close the mine's K3 shaft or they would end up dead and the mine would be burnt down. The shaft is where most of the mine's operations take place.
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And when these strikers get shot their relatives will cry about how innocent they were.
 
R12k a month? I know of people with tertiary degrees (not diplomas) that make less in a month.
 
This is the African way. Strike, threaten, etc etc. Thats how things get done
 
Marikana miners have threatened to kill Lonmin management unless they stop operations at the platinum mine in North West.
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Fire the lot & kill the rest when they come for you .. absolutely no sympathy if that's the game they wanna play.

The marchers carried knobkerries, sticks and iron rods and as they marched, sang: "We died because of [President Jacob] Zuma. [Bantu] Holomisa please come and rescue us."
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Proudly wearing 'we will kill for Zuma' t-shirts without realising that means some will die for Zuma too.

This might help ..

Charge Malema with incitement to violence
http://www.timeslive.co.za/thetimes/2012/09/05/charge-malema-with-incitement-to-violence
 
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Mila said:
does this not warrant arrest? Threatening people are surely against the law?
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The law states that threatening to hurt someone constitutes assault. So yes it does warrant arrest.
 
I heard from someone in Lonmin that they are in financial difficulty with bankruptcy an almost certainty if this strike continues. While I wouldn't like that to happen to the management and shareholders and country, there is a part of me that thinks lekka. The mine must close and these savages will then have nothing.
 
First of all, I cannot understand why government would allow armed people to gather at strikes or marches. This should have been stopped by police before these people started gerting together.

Secondly, as long as it is peaceful, fine. But the moment they pose a threat to someone, mow them diwn like bad animals.
 
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