Lonmin mine protest

Miners are monitered by a large number of police at a mountain close to the mine where they are demanding a wage increase. (AFP)

Police and mining officials sought to defuse a strike that sparked clashes between rival unions leaving 10 people dead and shutting down a Lonmin platinum operation. (AFP)

Striking mineworkers armed with machetes are monitered by a large number of police as they stage a sit-in on a hill near the mine in Rustenburg. (AFP)

The troubled Lonmin mine in Marikana in the North West has refrained from issuing warning letters to striking workers in order to avoid "harming" ongoing negotiations. (AFP)

Talks between the police and striking mine workers at Lonmin's troubled Marikana mine has stalled. (AFP)

Striking Lonmin miners gather on a hill near the Marikana mine during protest action. They vowed to stay there until their demands for higher salaries were met. (Sapa)

Violent protests are believed to be linked to rivalry between the National Union of Mineworkers and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union over recognition agreements at the mine. (Sapa)

(Jon Gambrell, AP)

(Jon Gambrell, AP)

(Jon Gambrell, AP)

(Jon Gambrell, AP)

Miners stage a sit-in close to the village of Rustenburg near a platinum mine run by leading producer Lonmin, where nine people were killed in clashes between rival unions. (AFP)

Police patrol the village of Rustenburg near Lonmin's mine. In two days, seven Lonmin employees were killed, while two of the police sent to quell the unrest were hacked to death in two days of violence which started off as an illegal work stoppage on Friday called by one of the unions. (AFP)

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Striking mine workers sit on a rocky outcropping near Lonmin platinum mine. (AP)

Police say no further incidents have been reported at Lonmin's violence-stricken Marikana mine in the North West, where 10 people have been killed. (AFP)

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