Click here to access article by Thomas Phakane and Michelle Fault from Huffington Post.
This is one of a very few pieces online that provides anything like an objective report. All mainstream news reports frame the event as police defending themselves. Of course, this is the typical way that the media of the One Percent portray all clashes between the 99 Percent and themselves and/or their enforcers.
Some accurate reports
covering other aspects of this incident are from World War 4 Report
entitled "South Africa: paranoid politics of platinum mine massacre" and from CounterFire entitled "South Africa: the story behind a brutal police massacre".
Most class wars are of a non-violent type in the sense that they occur in legislative bodies and legal courts that are controlled by the One Percent. However, whenever they cannot be successful by these bodies, the One Percent have no compunctions about using violence against workers to gain their wealth.
The One Percent in the US have their own history of massacres against striking workers: the 1886 Haymarket massacre, the 1892 Homestead Strike massacre, the 1894 Pullman Strike massacre, the 1897 Lattimore Massacre, the 1914 Ludlow Massacre, and the 1937 Chicago Memorial Day massacre among the most notorious.