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Since January this year, about seventy-thousand platinum miners have been on a legally-protected strike, demanding a substantial pay rise. It is the longest strike in South Africa鈥檚 history. At the centre of the industrial action - the Marikana mine - where dozens of striking workers were killed by police two years ago. And as our Africa correspondent Andrew Harding reports, the violence has returned.

(Photo: Striking miners demonstrate in Marikana, South Africa. Credit: MUJAHID SAFODIEN/AFP/Getty Images)