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HARDtalk: Frans Baleni - National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa

26/11/2012

Frans Baleni - National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa

BBC News Channel - HARDtalk, Frans Baleni - National Union of Mineworkers, South Africa

Shaun Ley asks about the consequences of the 'Marikana massacre' in South Africa.

Shaun Ley talks to Frans Baleni, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers in South Africa, about the political consequences of the 'Marikana massacre'.

It has become known as the 'Marikana massacre' - 34 people were killed as police in South Africa opened fire on striking miners. For many it had echoes of Sharpeville in 1960, one of the defining events which opened the world's eyes to the consequences of apartheid. For Frans Baleni, general secretary of the National Union of Mineworkers, Marikana is a challenge - not just to his union, but to the whole post-apartheid political system in which the NUM has been a key player. 18 years after black South Africans won legal equality, is the violence evidence that the system has failed all but a tiny political elite?

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