Recently, Mpofu’s remuneration for representing the miners at the commission has attracted notice. Not what the police did at ...

The leader of the breakaway Associated Mine and Construction Workers Union, Joseph Mathunjwa, was in tears as he related how ...

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 ...

MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - The bloody protest by South African miners that ended in a hail of police gunfire and 34 deaths this week could also wound the ruling ANC and its main labour ally, ...

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 ...

And I'm Steve Inskeep. In South Africa, striking mineworkers are still locked in a deadly dispute over pay. MONTAGNE: Thirty-four of their colleagues were shot dead when the police opened fire during ...

MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Thousands of striking miners armed with machetes and sticks faced off with South African police on Wednesday at Lonmin's Marikana mine after it halted production ...

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 ...

Platinum miner Lonmin revealed that more than four-fifths of its workers reported for duty at its Marikana mine in South Africa on Thursday, following the wage settlement struck earlier in the week.

The African National Congress convenes its 114th anniversary on 8 January 2026 in the Bojanala District of the North West Province, a terrain upon which the deepest contradictions of South Africa’s ...