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Friday, 17 August 2012

African lives cheap as ever

Editorial in the Sowetan the day after the Lonmin Massacre

WERE South Africa the normal country that our Constitution envisages - where the right to life is paramount - a calamity of the proportions of Marikana would have led to drastic measures being taken by the government.

Failure to do so would lead to the resignation of the government.