South Africa miners see murder counts dropped
Posted: September 3, 2012 at 2:38 a.m.
Prosecutors provisionally dropped murder charges against the 270 jailed miners who had been accused under an obscure legal doctrine of killing 34 of their own colleagues when the police opened fire on them during a wildcat strike.
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