Police in South Africa say they have fired rubber bullets, teargas and stun grenades in clashes with hundreds of striking Anglo American platinum mine workers who barricaded roads...About 12,000 Amplats [Anglo Platinum (part of Anglo American)] workers in northwestern Rustenburg, who were dismissed early this month for going on an illegal strike, were given an option to return to work on Tuesday morning if they wanted their jobs back…The deal was brokered…by the main National Union of Mineworkers (NUM)… But the workers refused to go back to work until their pay demands were met.. [video report:] Al Jazeera's Haru Mutasa reported from Marikana...that workers at the Lonmin platinum mine were accusing the police of harassing them to prevent them from testifying against the police shootings in August amid a government investigation into the deaths of 44 people.