South Africa: Miner dead in platinum mine protest
16.02.2012
Thousands of protesting miners burnt tyres and torched a police office near Impala Platinum's Rustenburg mine in South Africa on Thursday 16 February as a month-long strike at the world's second-largest producer of the precious metal turned violent. Police also said a miner who was beaten up during an overnight demonstration near the Rustenburg plant had died of his injuries.