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Residents of shantytowns around site of the 2012 massacre fight for ‘comfortably middle class’ lives they were promised.
From: Witness
Miners Shot Down
South Africa’s miner strike led to the country’s deadliest act of police violence since the end of apartheid.
12 Aug 2014
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