Striking South African workers have rallied to press Anglo American Platinum to revoke its decision to fire 12,000 wildcat strikers.
Nearly 50 people have been killed since August in a labour conflict in the mining sector, and President Jacob Zuma's ANC is struggling to contain the worst social unrest since the end of apartheid in 1994.
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