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Election violence flares on South Africa's platinum belt Ed Stoddard, Reuters Africa, Johannesburg, 27 April 2014 Violence erupted on South Africa's platinum belt on Sunday when members of the striking AMCU union attacked sports minister Fikile Mbalula as he campaigned in the area for the ruling ANC in May 7 elections, union officials and local media said. SABC radio, the public broadcaster, said the minister had to be whisked away in a bulletproof car when AMCU members set upon him and ANC activists, pelting them with rocks, as they went door to door in Freedom Park, a shantytown northwest of Johannesburg. Sydwell Dokolwana, the regional secretary for the National Union of Mineworkers, a key ANC ally and AMCU's arch rival, told Reuters he was with the minister at the time and that several people were hurt and buildings were torched. "There was a group of about 100 guys with AMCU shirts. We had to run for our lives," he told Reuters. Police could not be immediately reached for comment. Tensions are high in the platinum towns as the AMCU continues a crippling three-month strike against the world's top producers of the precious metal, Anglo American Platinum , Impala Platinum and Lonmin. C Thomson Reuters 2014 All rights reserved From: http://af.reuters.com/article/southAfricaNews/idAFL6N0NJ10W20140427 -- -- You are subscribed. This footer can help you. Please POST your comments to [email protected] or reply to this message. You can visit the group WEB SITE at http://groups.google.com/group/yclsa-eom-forum for different delivery options, pages, files and membership. To UNSUBSCRIBE, please email [email protected] . You don't have to put anything in the "Subject:" field. You don't have to put anything in the message part. All you have to do is to send an e-mail to this address (repeat): [email protected] . --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "YCLSA Discussion Forum" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
