Implats strike turns violent, 1 killed and others injured

One person was killed, and a policewoman and several civilians were injured in clashes with angry miners outside rock crusher manufacturer indiaImpala Platinum's Rustenburg operations, North West police said on Thursday.

“From reports, one person died last night in this situation,” said Brigadier Thulani Ngubane. The man was beaten up and stripped. He died in an ambulance, he said. On Thursday morning about 5000 people, believed to be part of the group of over 17,000 miners fired for going on an illegal strike, were “running up and down the streets outside the mine” and had set fire to the disused Freedom Park Satellite police station. “The situation is definitely volatile as we speak.” Police from other parts of the province had been sent to the area. Ngubane said no rubber bullets were fired by police following a directive last year that this was no...