Lonmin workers trickle back to mine after 44 killed

JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - A quarter of the workforce returned on Monday to the Marikana platinum mine where 44 men were killed last week in clashes that evoked memories of apartheid-era violence. Mine owner Lonmin has threatened about 3,000 striking workers with dismissal if they did not show up at Marikana, 100 kilometres (60 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, where 34 miners armed with spears, machetes and handguns were gunned down on Thursday in a hail of police fire. ...