The World - News from Aug. 30, 1987
Gold mine security officers shot and killed two striking black miners in one of the worst clashes of South Africa’s 20-day-old nationwide walkout, the mine owners said. Twelve strikers and four mine staff members were injured in the clash that occurred at the General Union Mining Corp.’s Kinross gold mine, about 30 miles east of Johannesburg. The company said about 200 strikers, painted with religiously symbolic markings and armed with machetes, attacked mine staff members, drawing fire from security guards.
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