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, 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 ...

Frustrated residents from local mining areas surrounding Marikana, took to the streets after being ignored by mining ...

More than 100 people from Marikana in Rustenburg protested outside Samancor Chrome’s Sandton headquarters on Wednesday ...

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 ...

I had the opportunity to watch a performance of “Billy Elliot - The Musical” in Bradford, UK in June 2016. The story explores the experiences of mining communities in the 1980s in northern England.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There is no comprehensive video footage of the deaths at “Scene Two”. Nor is there any neutral account of what happened to the seventeen men who died here. Some police officers have attempted to ...

An unidentified miner contemplates as he looks over the area where, a year ago, police opened fire on striking platinum miners killing 34 and injuring 78, before a memorial service to get under way, ...