JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - It was like a scene from the darkest days of apartheid: South African police opening fire with live ammunition, killing 34 striking black miners demanding a "living wage" from an international firm rich in capital.
But the killings outside of the Marikana mine of platinum company Lonmin happened on August 16, 2012, almost two decades after Nelson Mandela's "Rainbow Nation" exchanged white-minority rule for multi-racial democracy.
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