The shootings, which killed 34 people in total and wounded 78 more on August 16, 2012, were the bloodiest police crackdown since the end of apartheid in 1994.
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Leading from the front, he addressed thousands of fellow mineworkers with a commanding raised fist, a green blanket wrapped around his shoulders until the day he was struck dead. All she knows is that the police arrived to break up the wildcat protest on a hill, and then"many people were killed". "I was told I couldn't see him, because he was too badly hurt," she said in Mqanduli, where green hills stretch as far as the eye can see.Many of the workers in South Africa's platinum mines come from remote parts of the country such as Mqanduli, only returning home for the Christmas holidays.But his family is still too traumatised to pay their respects at the burial site.Fellow striker Mzoxolo Magidiwana was shot nine times during the same police crackdown, but survived.
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