South African Army Put On High Alert In Response To Nationwide Miner Strike
by Tyler Durden
ZeroHedge.com
09/12/2012
That didn’t take long. BBC reports that “Military bases in South Africa have been placed on high alert for the first time since the advent of democracy in 1994, defence officials have confirmed. The move comes as firebrand politician Julius Malema prepares to address disgruntled soldiers near Johannesburg. The defence minister accused him of trying to “mobilise against the state”.” In other words, striking miners are about to be considered enemies of the state, if they hinder record high profit margins at various international precious metal conglomerates. Hopefully South Africa does not test the theory that the worker exterminations (as a reminder tens of striking workers were previously killed by local police) will continue until worker morale improves, because i) it won’t, and ii) it will lead to a complete shut down of commodity extraction in the country.
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