JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - An inquiry into South Africa's worst police killing since the end of apartheid blamed a mining company, police and unions for the "horrendous tragedy", President Jacob Zuma ...

At the site of the 2012 Marikana massacre where police shot dead 34 strikers, thousands of South African miners sang remembrance songs. The 34 miners were gunned down after police were deployed to ...

Ben Fogel on South Africa after the Marikana Massacre. The article also provides a critique of left strategy that orientates towards COSATU, the SACP and the state rathering than popular struggles. A ...

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This memorial, and many other remembrances we have, reflects a collective desire to ensure that this tragedy, or something akin to it, is never again repeated. But if this is to be realised, our ...

The killings, the deadliest security incident since the end of white-minority rule in 1994, became widely known as the "Marikana massacre". Zuma received the findings of the inquest, chaired by ...

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, ...

However keynote speaker Dr Mamphela Ramphele told the second annual memorial lecture, organised by new mine owner Sibanye-Stillwater, the lessons learnt were beginning to bear fruit. "Their courage to ...

I refer to your leading article on the thirteenth anniversary of the Marikana Massacre (“Ramaphosa must face Marikana widows”, The Star, August 19). No sane person would deny that the police reaction ...

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Afrika Mayibuye Movement president Floyd Shivambu has criticised South Africa’s political landscape, saying no party, including the African National Congress (ANC), which he claimed has the blood of ...

It was a sad day for the mining industry last Thursday when South African police opened fire on striking drill workers at Lonmin's Marikana mine, killing 34 people and injuring twice as many. The ...