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Today how the minor strikes in South Africa threaten the Rainbow Nation success story.

A brand new US citizen stands up for democracy for 17 long hours. We take a

slow train to a city perched on the very edge of Europe and a quandary from a man in

Mexico City. What should he do with the very last egg in his

fridge?

Miners in South Africa are returning to work this morning at the Maricana Platinum Complex, the scene of violent protests in which

44 people died during an almost six-week strike.

The miners reached a wage agreement with the mine owner, Londmin, earlier this week, which will see their salaries

increase by up to 22%. Londmin, the world's third largest platinum producer, said it had suffered

major financial losses in the strike. An inquiry is underway

into the deaths of the miners, most of whom were killed by the South African police.

Andrew Harding says that with industrial action continuing at other pits the trouble for the authorities is far from over

It's an easy hour and a half by car from Johannesburg to the platinum mines around Rustenburg.

There are gentle hills en route, lakeside villas and motorboats.

You can stop off for a cappuccino and buy a paper.

Last Sundays had the annual rich list inside, a procession of almost exclusively white names and faces.

Then it's over a steep ridge and down onto a smart refurbished motorway for the last half hour.

It's a journey that British football fans made two years ago and the drive always

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