South African prosecutors have provisionally dropped murder charges against 270 miners whose colleagues were shot dead by police.
The charges cannot be dismissed formally until the end of the inquiry, but prosecutors said all detained miners would be freed.
Local authorities used a controversial apartheid-era law to accuse the miners of provoking police to open fire.
Miners were demanding
Sunday, September 2, 2012
Marikana mine strike: South Africa to drop murder charges
How different, things have a way of turning out, when you know the world is watching.
