Following the events at Marikana, the mining sector was gripped by an
unrelenting wave of strike action between August and November 2012, as
up to 100,000 workers downed tools and demanded better wages, better
living conditions and more effective union representation.
As negotiations, tear gas, water cannons and stun grenades moved from
Gold Fields to Anglo Gold Ashanti to Xstrata and to Anglo American
Platinum, the violence left a trail of destruction: further injuries,
job losses, and escalating rage. It also called on government to act as
its prized sector faced escalating chaos.
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2013/08/2013816173452894103.html
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