S African police shot at fleeing miners according to witness
Reuters Africa By Peroshni Govender and Tiisetso Motsoeneng MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) – A survivor of last month’s police killing of 34 strikers at a South African mine says officers shot...
View ArticleSouth Africa – ANC shuns Marikana anniversary commemoration
Reuters South Africa’s ruling ANC shun ‘massacre’ commemoration Boys play soccer in Marikana’s Nkaneng township in front of the Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine in Rustenburg, 100 km (62 miles)...
View ArticleSouth Africa – Malema and EFF use Marikana as political asset
Mail and Guardian Malema and the DA: Marikana politicking ahead of 2014 elections? 17 Sep 2013 06:42 Verashni Pillay The opposition’s fervent support of the Marikana miners has been read as political...
View ArticleSouth Africa – AMCU warns of another Marikana in platinum belt
Mail and Guardian Joseph Mathunjwa is worried about what is happening in the platinum belt, saying it is reminiscent of the run-up to the Marikana massacre. Tension is mounting amid a heavy police and...
View ArticleSouth Africa – Ramaphosa says he did not tell police how to act at Marikana
Mail and Guardian Cyril Ramaphosa has told the Farlam commission he did not tell the police how they should conduct themselves in the lead-up to the Marikana massacre. Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa....
View ArticleSouth Africa – ANC absent fromn Marikana memorial rally
Mail and Guardian ANC and NW government officials were conspicuously absent at a rally to commemorate slain miners on the second anniversary of the Marikana massacre. Remember the slain of Marikana:...
View ArticleSouth Africa – miners threaten court action if Zuma doesn’t release Marikana...
Mail and Guardian Lawyers for Marikana miners warn they will go to court this week if President Jacob Zuma does not release the report by the Marikana commission. Lawyers for Amcu and the injured and...
View ArticleSouth Africa – government to compensate families of those shot at Marikana
BBC AFP No officers have been charged over the killings South Africa’s government says it will pay compensation to the families of mineworkers killed during a wage dispute in Marikana in 2012. The...
View ArticleSouth Africa – Zuma offers compensation for Marikana victims
News24Jeanette Chabalala, News24 Some of the protesting Marikana miners in August 2012. (File, Leon Sadiki, City Press) Johannesburg – The Presidency announced on Sunday that government is ready to...
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