A documentary that has taken the world by storm by it’s raw emotion and straight-forward story-telling about the Marikana massacre that occurred in 2012 will probably never be seen by those who need it most.
There are many gut-wrenching stories coming out of the senseless Marikana massacre – this man’s story is something of an amalgamation of what many strikers went through.
The gloves are well and truly off after EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi went to town on the ruling party in a sustained verbal attack. Ding ding ding.
A year and a half after the horrific Marikana strike and subsequent massacre, one policeman has come forward amid heavy fire from police lawyers to tell his truth. He tells a version quite different to the self-defense tale that has been spun off by other senior police officers.
Activists are calling for the implementation of murder charges against police on the scene of the Marikana massacre on 16 August 2012. The surfacing of a fourth camera angle appears to show police firing without provocation at a slow moving crowd of miners, moments before the now-famous massacre scene unfolds.
One year ago today, 34 miners were killed by South African police and military forces at Lonmin’s Rustenburg platinum mines. One year on, the Mail & Guardian asks why those men died, and if South Africa will ever see a repeat of the Marikana massacre.
The Mail & Guardian is reporting that six shots have been fired at Wonderkop Stadium, in Marikana, while striking miners gathered for a meeting.
The aftermath of the Marikana mine massacre has birthed a new political party, the Workers’ And Socialist Party (Wasp). Wasp announced yesterday that it would contest the 2014 general election on a pro-nationalisation ticket. Wasp was formed by the Democratic Socialist Movement which is an affiliate of the Committee for a Workers’ International League. During […]
Earlier this week, 2oceansvibe brought you footage initially broadcast by Channel 4 News that depicted gruesome scenes from the Marikana Killing Koppie in which one policeman in particular bragged about killing a miner. Now, in the follow up to that piece of investigative journalism, we hear from some of the miners about the harassment key […]
Footage filmed by two unnamed South African policemen at Marikana on August 16 2012 show events as they unfolded from the police point of view. While disturbing footage of police opening fire on and slaying a group of charging protestors has been widely distributed, footage of the so-called Killing Koppi – where the majority of miners who […]