Nine police officers appeared in a South African court Thursday over the deaths of three miners in the days before the 2012 Marikana massacre, when 34 striking workers were shot dead. They are the ...

One disappointing aspect of the recent coverage of the Marikana massacre was the absence of serious discussion about what actually happened. This is especially important because, 10 years on, we have ...

The strike is over. The dead, most of them, have been buried. It’s only the most recent victim of the strike at Lonmin’s mines in Marikana that awaits interment at the Phokeng Mortuary in Rustenburg.

Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa sheds tears at Wonderkop in Marikana, 16 August 2019, during the 7th year anniversary of the Marikana massacre. Picture: Nigel Sibanda Thousands of platinum miners and ...

The ANC Women’s League says its presidential candidate Nkosazana Dlamini-Zuma was chased out of Marikana because of ...

South Africa’s Deputy President, Cyril Ramaphosa, has “apologised” for his actions in the run up the Marikana massacre when police killed 34 striking mineworkers on August 16, 2012. His supposed ...

South African opposition parties on Tuesday slammed the ruling ANC for failing to deliver on its promises, four years after police killed 34 Marikana miners in a massacre that shocked the world.

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 ...

A small room measuring roughly nine square metres (100 square foot) built with thin corrugated metal sheets is home for most of the year for one of the survivors of the Marikana massacre which took ...

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.