South African prosecutors yesterday provisionally withdrew murder charges against 270 miners accused of killing 34 striking colleagues shot dead by police, but said they could be re-charged after investigations are complete.
Public anger had grown at the charges, made under an apartheid-era law and saying the minders had a "common purpose" in the murder of their colleagues.
The killing of the strikers last month at the Marikana platinum mine, was the worst such incident since white rule ended in 1994.
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