About a third of workers have returned to South Africa's Marikana platinum mine, resuming operations at the site where police shot dead 34 striking miners.
Mine owner Lonmin has threatened about 3,000 striking workers with dismissal if they do not show up at Marikana, 100km northwest of Johannesburg.
Miners armed with spears, machetes and handguns died last Thursday after police opened fire.
Ten people were also killed prior to the police shooting, including a shop steward from the country's biggest union, the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM).
Striking workers gathered today near the site where they assembled a week ago, with many saying they were not ready to go back into the shafts.
Lonmin said it did not yet have enough workers at their posts to produce ore.
Officials from the small Solidarity union of highly-skilled workers said at least 80% of the workforce is needed to bring platinum out of the shafts.
The violence was sparked by a spreading battle for membership between the NUM and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, which has accused its rival of caring more about politics and personal enrichment than workers.
Lonmin said that operations had resumed and it had extended to tomorrow its deadline for the strikers at the mine, which employs 28,000, to return to work.
A spokesman for President Jacob Zuma, who has declared a week of mourning, said a ministerial committee appointed by the president had arrived on the scene to assist families and the community affected by the troubles.
