Workers arrested at South Africa's Marikana mine will be charged later with the murder of 34 colleagues shot by police, an official has said.
Yes, you read that correctly. They will be charged with murder for their friends and coworkers being murdered by the police, because they had the audacity to stand up to their employer.
Is this what Mandela fought for?
I used to believe that the dystopian future corporate oligarchy painted by novels like Snow Crash was a thing of crazy fantasy. But we're in 2012 and we're still dealing with shit like this, excuse my language. Ridiculous.