South Africa miners strike
The bloody protest by South African miners that ended in a hail of police gunfire and 34 deaths this week laying bare workers’ anger over enduring inequalities in Africa’s biggest economy.
It’s time that we took a stand and made it clear that the continued oppression of our people has got to come to an end. This is never going to be acceptable and it can only persist so long as we turn a blind eye and hope it will not happen to us ; human life has become an object of abuse by the companies that stand to gain most from the continued production of goods they sell .
These miners have a right to demand better pay and working conditions yet it becomes a thing of social disruption of peace when those needs are not met or resolved simply owing to the fact that the strike disrupts production . This is in the least is a form of modern day slavery masked by the so called independence after the brutal Apartheid era . The current price of Platinum on the world market has averaged US $ 1,600 per ounce for the last three years while the annual pay of miners is the equivalent of US $ 1,260 which is less than the price per ounce of platinum . It seems me that these workers are due no rights and are deemed disposable human capital that has no right to better pay or working conditions ; with the corporate employer playing judge and executioner armed with the power to buy mercenaries to enforce their rules on any employee raising any complaint .
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma called it a tragic incident in an attempt to diplomatically cool down the mounting tensions while in reality what he should have done is called it what it is ; Brutal , Horrific senseless use of force on the part of police that cannot be condoned . Police said at a news conference that it was in self-defense, noting that strikers even possessed a pistol taken from a police officer they had beaten to death on Monday. But video footage indicates the miners may have simply been trying to flee tear gas that police had fired at them moments earlier. As the miners rushed away from a hill they had occupied and that was being tear-gassed, police opened fire, including with automatic rifles. Police were perhaps jumpy, knowing that the strikers were armed and that two officers had already died earlier in the week.
Thanks for breaking down a bit of the economics and strife symptomatic of a system promulgated by global a cartel of leeches. But you, Sir, should also strive to bring some of the root causes, collusion and complacency to light.
Some of these robbers even lobby here on Capitol Hill, with the added temerity of siphoning our tax dollars to rogue states like Israel, while we have mentally shiftless Blacks in America making asinine comments like “Africa’s problems are Africa’s problems…”
South Africa miners strike
The bloody protest by South African miners that ended in a hail of police gunfire and 34 deaths this week laying bare workers’ anger over enduring inequalities in Africa’s biggest economy.
It’s time that we took a stand and made it clear that the continued oppression of our people has got to come to an end. This is never going to be acceptable and it can only persist so long as we turn a blind eye and hope it will not happen to us ; human life has become an object of abuse by the companies that stand to gain most from the continued production of goods they sell .
These miners have a right to demand better pay and working conditions yet it becomes a thing of social disruption of peace when those needs are not met or resolved simply owing to the fact that the strike disrupts production . This is in the least is a form of modern day slavery masked by the so called independence after the brutal Apartheid era . The current price of Platinum on the world market has averaged US $ 1,600 per ounce for the last three years while the annual pay of miners is the equivalent of US $ 1,260 which is less than the price per ounce of platinum . It seems me that these workers are due no rights and are deemed disposable human capital that has no right to better pay or working conditions ; with the corporate employer playing judge and executioner armed with the power to buy mercenaries to enforce their rules on any employee raising any complaint .
South Africa’s President Jacob Zuma called it a tragic incident in an attempt to diplomatically cool down the mounting tensions while in reality what he should have done is called it what it is ; Brutal , Horrific senseless use of force on the part of police that cannot be condoned . Police said at a news conference that it was in self-defense, noting that strikers even possessed a pistol taken from a police officer they had beaten to death on Monday. But video footage indicates the miners may have simply been trying to flee tear gas that police had fired at them moments earlier. As the miners rushed away from a hill they had occupied and that was being tear-gassed, police opened fire, including with automatic rifles. Police were perhaps jumpy, knowing that the strikers were armed and that two officers had already died earlier in the week.
By Patrick Mwangi (Voice of Africa media )
Thanks for breaking down a bit of the economics and strife symptomatic of a system promulgated by global a cartel of leeches. But you, Sir, should also strive to bring some of the root causes, collusion and complacency to light.
Some of these robbers even lobby here on Capitol Hill, with the added temerity of siphoning our tax dollars to rogue states like Israel, while we have mentally shiftless Blacks in America making asinine comments like “Africa’s problems are Africa’s problems…”
how about the white people get out of Africa……..
I think you, I, and a billion others can agree on this.
Thing is, they will not leave on their own accord (see Muammar Gaddafi), and worse still, the Asians are going in.
If history has over and over, demonstrated the soulless and parasitic nature intrinsic to a particular civilization, what other signs do you want?