The festival began in the bar on top of the koppie, and has been going from strength to strength. |
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It is a plot of around 20 acres, with veld surrounding the koppie, which is around 80 metres high. |
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The following day, Sunday 12 August, a group of about 150 strikers marched from their new base on the koppie to the Lonmin office. |
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Police opened an explosion of intense fire – 295 bullets, many aimed from the top of the koppie down at the shapes of men huddling below. |
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It shows police officers walking and shooting far from the initial clash, and the television cameras there, near the rocks of the koppie. |
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The area around the visitors' centre will be planted with indigenous grasses, giving way to the indigenous plants and trees around the top of the koppie, where the cave lies. |
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On the koppie behind the village, the unsightly red-and-white skeleton of an FM tower. |
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On Tuesday 14 August, as hundreds of strikers on the koppie were being given rites to keep them safe by the sangoma's two sons, Lonmin executives met secretly with the provincial police chief, Lt Gen Mbombo. |
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A huge mound of square granite blocks can still be seen at the base of the Koppie. |
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