/ 8 August 2013

Marikana one year later: A special project

Marikana One Year Later: A Special Project

To mark the anniversary of the Marikana massacre, the Mail & Guardian will next week publish a special project examining the consequences of the killings through the eyes and voices of those most affected: the families of the dead miners.

It will be available online as an interactive HTML5 package – a first for the M&G – with videos, audio interviews and portraits.

It will also be published in print as a 24-page supplement, distributed with the newspaper.

This is the first step of a two-year project by M&G journalists Paul Botes and Niren Tolsi, who have spent time with the massacre victims' families to document their lives since the August 16 2012 killings.

Supported by the Open Society Initiative for Southern Africa, the project will culminate in a book of family portraits, testimonies, and a photographic and multimedia exhibition that will return to the areas the miners came from.

Look out for the launch on August 16 2013.