Miners at South Africa’s Lonmin-run platinum mine in Marikana are beginning to return to work after a strike in which 44 people were killed, many by police.Al Jazeera’s Tania Page, reporting from Rustenburg near Marikana in the North West province, said on Monday the miners were returning to work to heed the new deadline issued by management.Those who refuse to resume work will be sacked, said our correspondent."We have only seen a handful of miners arriving, but we did see a busload go past here,” said Page."One of the things to remember here is that while this deadline has been given by Lonmin, over the weekend they did back away from that threat to fire these workers.”She said the government and religious leaders were mediating in talks between unions and Lonmin management to resolve the pay dispute which triggered the strike.