JOHANNESBURG, Gauteng (AFP) – South Africa's powerful National Union of Mineworkers said it will boycott Friday's ceremony marking one year since the killing of 34 miners, amid a feud with a rival ...

In apartheid SA, a situation like that in Marikana would have gone down very differently, according to an unreconstructed commander of the riot squad. He declined to be named for fear of jeopardising ...

JOHANNESBURG (AFP) – Hundreds of demonstrators marched on South African government buildings Thursday to protest at a lack of state funding for survivors of shootings at the Marikana mine, where 44 ...

Alinah Kelo Segobye received funding from the Rotary Peace Centre for her visiting scholar term at the University of Bradford in 2016. I had the opportunity to watch a performance of “Billy Elliot - ...

Niren Tolsi is, along with Kwanele Sosibo, widely considered to be South African's leading journalist. He has followed many stories of popular resistance, and state repression over the years. On 16 ...

The massacre of 45 people, including 34 miners, at Marikana in the North West province is an inevitable outcome of a system of production and exploitation that has historically treated human life as ...

A woman at a protest in support of victims of the Marikana massacre outside the South African parliament. EFE-EPA/Nic Bothma To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after nearly ...

Thousands of South African platinum miners gathered Friday on the hill near the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana in the country’s North West province where 34 of their comrades died in a hail of ...

I have been to Marikana a number of times over the years. During these visits, I had the chance to speak with miners, women, and community union leaders not only about what happened 12 years ago, but ...

The sight of policemen gunning down striking workers at Marikana was truly galling. Reports too have now emerged that on the day of the shooting some workers may have been executed far from the view ...

Two years ago, police in Marikana, South Africa, killed thirty-four platinum miners who were striking against Lonmin, a British-owned mining corporation. At the time, Charlayne Hunter-Gault wrote that ...

One of our national anthems is Stimela, Hugh Masekela’s haunting tribute to the migrant labourers who came from across southern Africa, from Mozambique, Lesotho, Malawi, and elsewhere, to dig the gold ...