The police fired on machete-wielding workers engaged in a wildcat strike at a platinum mine here on Thursday, leaving a field strewed with bodies and a deepening fault line between the governing African National Congress and a nation that, 18 years after the end of apartheid, is increasingly impatient with deep poverty, rampant unemployment and yawning inequality.
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Damn.
ReplyDeleteDon't bring a machete to a gunfight, I guess.
Yup, insane.
ReplyDelete"Don't bring a machete to a gunfight, I guess."
ReplyDeleteSeems like good advice to me!
I'm not normally one to defend cops shooting people, especially en-masse, but WTF would anyone expect these guys to do?
Let the guys with machetes running at them keep coming? Engage them hand-to-hand?
Nope. I'd have mowed 'em down too!
I'd have mowed 'em down too!
ReplyDeleteDitto.