34 shot dead at South African Platinum mines

[Martin Red]

or should I say, assassinated

[Martin Red]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-19292909

[Pete_ is_ niccce]

I guess it never ends! pathetic!

[Chris Chase]

I saw this in the paper today. Really sad.

[DaBownca]

Fucking horrendous and I am hearing nothing so far over here

[panklady]

Speechless. They went to great lengths to silence these voices just asking for a fair wage. *WASMH*

[neon]

Good Lord :(

[Martin Red]

History

The Company was incorporated in the United Kingdom on 13 May 1909 as the London and Rhodesian Mining and Land Company Limited.[4]

Businessman Tiny Rowland was recruited as chief executive in 1962.[5] For many years during the second half of the twentieth century it was frequently in the news, not only due to the politically-sensitive part of the world in which it had mining businesses, but also – as it strove to become a conglomerate not wholly dependent on these businesses – in a number of takeover battles, most notably for the Harrods of Knightsbridge department store.[5]

In 1968, Lonrho acquired Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, a gold mining business in Ghana.[6] The former Conservative minister Duncan Sandys, a director of Ashanti, became Lonrho's chairman in 1972.[7]

During the 80s, Lonrho entered the British newspaper market, buying the Sunday newspaper The Observer in 1981[8] and the newly launched daily Today in 1986.[9] Today was sold to News International the following year,[10] while the Guardian Media Group bought the Observer in 1993.[8]

Sir Angus Ogilvy, married to a member of the British royal family (Princess Alexandra), was a Lonrho director and this increased media interest in the company's affairs. Ogilvy's career ended when Lonrho was involved in a sanctions-busting scandal concerning trade with Rhodesia. Prime Minister, Edward Heath, criticised the company, describing it in the House of Commons in 1973 as "an unpleasant and unacceptable face of capitalism."[11]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lonmin

[Martin Red]

Lonrho entered the British newspaper market, buying the Sunday newspaper The Observer in 1981[8] and the newly launched daily Today in 1986.[9] Today was sold to News International the following year,[10]

Eddie Shah, is a Manchester-based businessman, the founder of the then technologically-advanced UK newspaper Today in 1986, and of the extremely short-lived tabloid The Post, and current owner of the Messenger Group.[1]

Shah was born in Cambridge. His mother was English and his father was Iranian. Shah was educated at the Scottish co-educational independent boarding school, Gordonstoun, and at both Haywards Heath Grammar School and Haywards Heath Secondary Modern School, at Haywards Heath in Sussex. He then attended a Brighton crammer, where he obtained seven GCE 'O' Levels.

He confronted the trade unions at his Warrington print works and Manchester news offices in 1983. As the owner of the 'Warrington Messenger', he sacked six workers in a declared anti-union move. In response, the National Graphical Association (NGA) began mass picketing of the Messenger's offices. On 30 November, over four thousand trade unionists attended a mass picket. The police brought in riot-trained Police Support Units from five surrounding forces and after some pushing and shoving the climate became hostile. The National Graphical Association speaker van was attacked and overturned by police, and squads with full riot gear repeatedly charged the pickets. The National Graphical Association immediately suspended mass picketing. For the first time in an industrial dispute para-military policing more akin to that used in Northern Ireland had been used to attack strikers

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddy_Shah

The former newspaper proprietor Eddy Shah has appeared in court charged with child sex offences.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18355777

The Wapping dispute was, along with the miners' strike of 1984-5, a significant turning point in the history of the trade union movement and of UK industrial relations. It started on 24 January 1986 when some 6,000 newspaper workers went on strike after protracted negotiation with their employers, News International (parent of Times Newspapers and News Group Newspapers, and chaired by Rupert Murdoch)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wapping_dispute

[Martin Red]

Speechless. They went to great lengths to silence these voices just asking for a fair wage. *WASMH*

It's being compared to the Sharepeville Massacre in 1960.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/d...00/2653405.stm


Although that was related to race, and this time it's related to capitalism?

[Mr.I]

[Martin Red]

Platinum through the doors

V12 rollin’ n-gga goin’ platinum
V12 rollin’ n-gga goin’ platinum
V12 rollin’ n-gga goin’ platinum
V12 rollin’ n-gga goin’ platinum

[R Kelly]
Swag like a lighter
And I keep my swag lit
Man I’m on fire
That can’t tell a n-gga shit
V12 rolling
Got some honeys up in it
Say your p-ssy golden
But I only f-ck with platinum chicks
Only talk platinum shit
Only swallow platinum spit
Speak my own slang-uage
Still I am the real-iest
Surrounded by Ciroc but your boy sipping Hennessy
Loves is a hospital and I was born in V.I.P.
Sick and there’s no cure
Bad case of V.I.P.
Still in the game killing you can call us M.V.P.
Whole f-cking club jump in your cars and follow me
It’s dude from the Chi and the D.O. double G.

[Hook]
We platinum
Platinum stars
Platinum
Platinum chicks
Platinum
Platinum clothes
Platinum
Platinum rich
Platinum
Platinum shots
Platinum
Platinum flights
Platinum
Platinum cribs
Platinum
Platinum lights

[Snoop Dogg]
Let a muthaf-cker know from the ghetto
Limping, crimping and pimping mixing ‘em all
Fixing the ball drifting listen dawg
My rap is that, my Cadillac is dripping wet
You can bet, turn it up, roll it up, burn it up
Give it back to me let me show you how to move that groove that weed that do that
All in fallin’ ballin’ yellin’ doggy do that chew that
Record sales, hoe sales, detail, retail, you fail, we sell
ding dong get your momma ring your bell
Back in the club with my nephew Kellz
25 girls in the Dogg cartel and they do what the Dogg say grifted or walkway
Pimping on them all day can’t you tell
I’m liking it loving it cubbin’ it gubbin’ it drinks up blunts lit platinum boss shit
N-gga you know how we do this

[Hook]

[Snoop DDogg]
Take it back in the back of the car
Mack-mack like macking them hard, like that, quote backing them hard
Rich n-gga with a platinum card in a platinum car with mink on the seat
Hoes on the street cause they all wanna make that trip to the promised land
Little mama can give it to me like I’m the man
Give it to me like I told you
Grab you, flip you, hold you, break you down
Stop depress, drop your dress, cause I’m gon’ take you down
What d’you think I got drink and you won’t drink right now
Two shots and now you ready for that tat-tat-toawww
And I’m gon’ give you that
I know that you diggin’ that
Platinum smile on your face yeah they know I’m diggin’ that
And i’m liking it, loving it, cubbin’ it, gubbin’ it, drinks up blunts lit platinum
boss shit
You know how we do this

[Hook]

Look at us mob we at the bar
We going crazy woah
Earth is our turf
We on them jets
Leaving them haters woah
Snoop poppin’ bottles I got models
’bout to mix it woah
I see your man he causing problems ’bout to fix it woah
You cats is sloppy
Call me the clean up man
Pimpin’s my hobby
First love mic in hand
I got a platinum car
I got a platinum chain
I got a platinum chick
And she give me platinum brain
I ain’t gonna bullshit ya ladies
This the real thing
While they going gold
We done went platinum man

[Martin Red]

"Most of us expected freedom to deliver us from social injustices and poverty. But what we see is more suffering by the poor and the capitalists keep getting richer," Ngesi added.

This area of Soweto is now an international tourist attraction, filled with middle-class homes along neatly paved roads with new red buses whisking commuters into the city.

Many areas, especially in rural South Africa, are not so lucky.

South Africa has about 80 percent of the world's platinum reserves, but the industry has been criticised for chasing profits at the expense of its workers.

Many miners live in squalid conditions in shantytowns, their lives little changed in the 18 years since apartheid yielded to all-race democracy.

http://news.yahoo.com/lonmin-massacr...131429682.html

[Martin Red]

“Lonmin treat us like dogs,” said Thembelani Khonto, 24. “When you're underground, it's like you're a slave and they don't know you.”

Siphiwo Gqala, 25, said he sometimes spends up to 14 hours a day underground but does not receive overtime pay. “It's dangerous work,” he said. “Sometimes you go down there and a rock falls and you die. Big vehicles can come and kill you." Recalling the massacre, he said: “I’ve never seen something like that: people killed like chickens. One of my friends is still missing. I don't know if he's in the hospital or the mortuary.”

“The mine must be nationalised. We support Julius Malema and the youth league for saying the mines must be nationalised. Now they're starting to shoot us. If we die today,

http://www.marxist.com/south-african...-shot-dead.htm

[Martin Red]

Thousands of South African gold miners are attempting to launch a multi-million pound lawsuit against leading companies for alleged negligence that resulted in them contracting lung diseases.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...uit-negligence

[Martin Red]

Lonmin mine in South Africa hit by fresh violenceRivalry between striking unions at Marikana mine reignites four days after memorial to miners killed by police

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...frica-violence

[ngeso]

It's a shame, really. A bit of moderate Chavez-style socialism, nationalising of mines, redistribution of public wealth, and everyone could have been a lot better off after racist apartheid. Instead a thin black profiteering oligarchy based around the ANC has run off with all the loot of the last 15+ years. Now it's classist apartheid for almost everyone else.

Rise up and fight.

[Martin Red]

It's a shame, really. A bit of moderate Chavez-style socialism, nationalising of mines, redistribution of public wealth, and everyone could have been a lot better off after racist apartheid. Instead a thin black profiteering oligarchy based around the ANC has run off with all the loot of the last 15+ years. Now it's classist apartheid for almost everyone else.

Rise up and fight.

Indeed, rise up and fight.

[Martin Red]

Striking South Africa platinum miners agree deal with LonminMiners to return to work after pay rise ends five weeks of bitter industrial action during which 45 people were killed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...rs-deal-lonmin

[ngeso]

Striking South Africa platinum miners agree deal with LonminMiners to return to work after pay rise ends five weeks of bitter industrial action during which 45 people were killed
http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2...rs-deal-lonmin

Where's the prosecution?

[Martin Red]

Where's the prosecution?

it seems there are more stories about prosecution of the miners, than prosecution of the police.