Although the National Union of Mineworkers has welcomed the police action, mine workers want their colleagues freed, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
The Anglo Platinum strike, which has dragged on for more than a month, has become a metaphor for the post-Marikana backlash.
A slow, sure, violent implosion appears to be building in South Africa’s largest and formerly most powerful union – the National Union of Mineworkers.
Hundreds of Amplats workers were turned away by police as they attempted to storm the NUM’s Rustenburg regional offices to cancel their membership.
Tired of kowtowing to unions, workers are using other avenues to bring mines to their knees, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
In unguarded moments, the organised violence committed by the striking workers at Impala Platinum against strike breakers has been glamorised.
The Amcu-aligned interim workers’ committee has informed the workers about their new salary adjustments but many are still unhappy with the offer.
DJ, producer and jazz pianist Mark de Clive-Lowe says he was chasing a girl when he first came to London from New Zealand in the late nineties.
The country’s best-selling music genre is mired in sex, drugs and alcohol. But, as the industry’s top guns say, God’s gifts are without repentance.
Activists and academics say the Marikana shootings are part of a sustained pattern of intimidation and violence against the workers.