MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - World No. 3 platinum producer Lonmin said around 6,000 workers had gone on an illegal strike on Tuesday at its Marikana mine, which was the site of deadly labour violence last year that rocked Africa's largest economy.
The strike at the mine where 34 workers were shot dead by police last August - in the deadliest security incident since the end of apartheid in 1994 - also coincided with a visit by journalists to the site northwest of Johannesburg.
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