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Pressure, Tension Grow in South Africa Miners' Strike

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South Africa’s largest platinum producer tried, and failed, to break the nation’s longest-ever strike this week, with an attempt to lure miners back after 16 weeks. The head of the union leading the strike urged workers to stay firm as tensions rose in the mining town of Marikana. The thousands of miners who showed up Wednesday at the main stadium near Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana, South Africa, were not there to return to work, as their employer had hoped. Instead, they...

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