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Tight security after South African mine clashes kill nine

2012-08-14 26 Dailymotion

EDITORS PLEASE NOTE: STORY CONTAINS VIDEO OF A DEAD BODY<br/> <br />Security is beefed up at South Africa's Lonmin mine after nine people were killed in clashes between labor unions.<br/> <br />Police told Reuters two policemen died after a machete attack by a mob near the mine.<br/> <br />It was the deadliest violence to date in a union turf war between South Africa's dominant National Union of Mineworkers .... and the relatively new Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union.<br/> <br />(SOUNDBITE) (English) PRESIDENT OF THE ASSOCIATION OF MINEWORKERS AND CONSTRICTION UNION, JOSEPH MATHUNJWA, SAYING:<br/> <br />"We say to workers, everyone must go back to work, but the situation as it is, how would you go to work? "<br/> <br />On Tuesday another dead body was found near the platinum mine although the cause of his death is still unknown.<br/> <br />South Africa is home to 80 percent of known platinum reserves.

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