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    BBC Breaking News‏Verified account @BBCBreaking 17 Aug 2012

    South African President Zuma announces inquiry into deaths of 34 miners killed by police at #Lonmin's mine. More soon http://bbc.in/On0Twz 

    9:56 AM - 17 Aug 2012
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    • Paul Horrocks João Paulo Donadel Z Dora Moloele gman Daniel Hernandez✍🏽🌞 Dr Kehinde Ross umi ✨Emily✨ lewin t chibanguza
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      1. Wirral In It Together‏ @Wirral_In_It 17 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking Whitewash? Has to be

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      1. Miqdad Al-Nuaimi‏ @mndsc06 18 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking About time too. What can justify such barbarity in post-apartheid SA?

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      1. Jack Murray‏ @ThinkErgoBe 18 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking #lonmin Lets do the (SA) Time Warp Again! And now the latest: blatant racism at #flysaa #racist http://www.fin24.com/Companies/TravelAndLeisure/No-more-white-cadet-pilots-for-SAA-20120817 …

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      1. Float‏ @CatherineDreyer 17 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking no news for 14 hours? Wow

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      1. viviana trouchot‏ @TrouCeleste 17 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking http://www.avaaz.org/es/petition/Que_la_ONU_denuncie_ante_el_Tribunal_de_La_Haya_a_USA_por_el_GENOCIDIO_DE_IRAK/?cDxcsdb …

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      1. Tom Buchanan‏ @thomas4880 17 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking not before time.

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      1. Daniel Tembo‏ @tembo269 17 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking shoot to kill borrowed from Binge.

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      1. sabelo mkhonza‏ @sabelomkhonza 17 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking as a South African I feel that police used excessive force. Striking and demonstration is legal in SA

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      1. кононыхина антонина‏ @tonia1010 17 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking послушайте интервью с ворами сбербанка http://blogs.mail.ru/mail/germankirichev/402009F06E01DF43.html …

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      1. Laurence shaw‏ @Ljshawsy2 17 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking another country control by the western governments train to be brutal pick on the poor for the exploiting of country by rich

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      1. Lithlad‏ @Lithlad 17 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking They can't blame this on Apartheid and 'whitey'.

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      1. Hodan Ahmed‏ @Q_Huda 17 Aug 2012
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        @BBCBreaking: I guess SA police has kept Apartheid brutal tactics, disgustingly inhumane.

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