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Premium Content A confused Moranbah man pushed a police officer multiple times before realising who it was. Buddy James Thomas, 42, pleaded guilty in Moranbah Magistrates Court on May 13 to obstructing a police officer. Police prosecutor Sergeant Paul Cramp said police responded to a noise complaint at a Moranbah property on March 20 about 9.15pm. Police attended the address and knocked multiple times, to no answer. An officer opened the unlocked door, saw Thomas standing in the living room and waved at him. The court heard Thomas approached the officer and pushed back. When the officer...

Hope faces off against power in Marikana trial The family members of mineworkers killed during the Marikana massacre in 2012 have yet to see a police officer held to account 14 May 2021 - 10:32 By Niren Tolsi Police fire on mineworkers at Marikana in the North West. File photo. Image: Alon Skuy The public area in the Mahikeng high court was populated with history’s ghosts at the resumption of the murder trial of the police officers implicated in the strike at Marikana in 2012 that left 44 people dead. There were close to 20 of the widows and other family member...

A 30-year-old mine worker drove down into an embankment in an attempt to flee police while drink driving. Jared Reece Borghero pleaded guilty at Blackwater Magistrates Court on February 5 to driving under the influence of liquor. Police prosecutor Sergeant Paul Cramp said Borghero was intercepted by police about 11.25pm on January 22, at a mining camp at Bluff. The officers were patrolling the Jellinbah Mine camp on the Capricorn Hwy when they saw a white Ford Ranger run into the embankment, thinking it was involved in an incident. Sgt Cramp said officers smelled liquor on Borghero’s bre...

Doesn't go to the workers. i can assure you. so i've introduced the slap act. stop looting america's pensions. last night, murray energy, the largest unionized mine company in the country, has gone bankrupt. and if this proceeds as it has before, our miners will be left out. they, by next year, they'll lose their pensions and the average pension for a mine worker that's retired or a widow that's receiving it is around $600. and that's a life-sustaining amount of money for them and all of that's eroded. mitch mcconnell has had a bill. miners -- american miners protection act, for over three yea...

People in america, you know, many of whom like it, the position of taking away the insurance of a mine worker or steel worker who has negotiated their health care as part of their collective bargaining agreement, that doesn't seem progressive to me. that seems like a really bad political idea. and it could be extremely costly to us in the election for president and also the election to try to get a majority of the senate because there are many of these states, colorado, arizona, north carolina where medicare for all as bernie has designed it is not going to fly. >> do you think that the party ...