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Today South Africa's striking miners fuel the country's debate about inequality.

Cartwheels and piggybacks military training with the Mali army.

Our correspondent recalls a chance meeting with the last emperor of China.

And Sheikh meets Kitch, high summer on Italy's Riviera Romagnola.

The video recordings of South African police firing on and killing protesting minors have evoked memories of the country's brutal days of

apartheid.

The men had been demanding better pay and working conditions.

President Zuma has announced that a commission will investigate the circumstances of the deaths,

but the incident has focused international attention on the fact that many black people are disappointed with their lives in Democratic South Africa. Almost a quarter of the population

is unemployed, 73% of them under the age of 35. Mark Loebel recently travelled to one of the memorial services for the dead men.

As we pull out of Johannesburg and head towards South Africa's game-rich

northwest province, we coast along the so-called Platinum Highway as it sails over a

dam wall. We cruise by a yacht club before entering the Platinum Belt, home to Lonmin, one of the world's biggest producers of the precious expensive

metal.

But poverty is here too.

We pass squatter camps housing many of Maricana's mine workers, most of whom are on strike.

There's still a large police presence around the mine.

You wouldn't normally look twice at a rock in the feld a few hundred meters from the mine,

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