
Gorbachev's legacy
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The Strike at a Platinum Mine in Maracana
On the sixteenth of august 20, twelvth police shot dead 34 striking miners at a platinum mine in maricana. It was one of the bloodiest police operations in the postepart eght era. But before that, it's ten years since a violent industrial dispute in south africa,. which resulted in a challenge to the authority and the orthodoxy of the governing african national congress. Rachel naylor has spoken to one of the survivors, musicolo magidi ana, who was shot nine times.
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