BATHOPELE MINE, South Africa (Reuters) - Machete-wielding strikers forced top world platinum producer Anglo American Platinum to shut down some of its South African operations on Wednesday, widening the labour unrest sweeping through the country's mining industry.
A column of 1,500 chanting marchers confronted a small group of riot police backed by armoured vehicles at the gates of the firm's Bathopele shaft in the "platinum belt" near Rustenburg, 100 km (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg.
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