JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A senior member of South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) was shot dead overnight in the restive platinum belt town of Marikana, a union spokesman said on Friday.
No motive was yet known for the killing of the NUM official near a mine owned by Lonmin, whose Marikana operations lay at the centre of a union turf war last year and where police shot dead 34 striking miners.
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