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South Africa: Miners’ leader killed a day after Marikana memorial

SOUTH AFRICAN unions condemned the murder of a miners’ leader in Marikana yesterday a day after memorials for the 2012 massacre.

The National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) official, who has not yet been publicly named, was reportedly shot dead on his way to meet a union comrade.

He had recently received death threats after returning to the NUM, with others, from the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) splinter organisation whose violent unofficial walkout preceded the massacre.

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