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How it happened:
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Striking mine workers sit on a hill. They start moving to the rear of the Wonderkop hostel Nervous police officers put up barbed wire fencing between them and the protesters More than 1 000 strikers move to avoid the barbed wire barricade Police try to disperse the crowd using water cannons and tear gas Approximately 3 000 strikers, armed with pangas and assegais, storm the 423-strong police force Police open re, rst with rubber bullets and then with automatic machine guns and pistols 34 people die and more than 78 are injured. Only one policeman is injured

R556

Marikana
N4 N4

Brits

R 80

Mooinooi

R104

Hartbeespoort Cradle of Humankind

R104

Pretoria

Centurion
N14 N1

Magaliesburg
N14

Midrand Krugersdorp

N14

Johannesburg

RUDI LOUW, Graphics24