The police’s strategy of disclosing as little as possible had been wearing thin and it was off-camera events that took centre stage.
Police testimony at the Farlam commission continues amid an atmosphere of increasing volatility and outrage at the behind-the-scene peculiarities.
Police testimony at the Marikana commission of inquiry has continued amid an atmosphere of volatility and outrage at behind-the-scenes peculiarities.
In a day dominated by sideshows, testimony continued at the Farlam commission with a succession of police officers stepping onto the witness stand.
The validity of video footage taken by police of the Marikana shooting is being questioned as the criminology expert’s evidence lacks detail.
The Farlam commission is in danger of collapsing after lawyers said they couldn’t proceed because of recent arrests and the withdrawal of funding.
Despite the negativity about it among miners, the National Union of Mineworkers still believes that it can win them back, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
A crime scene technician has told the Farlam commission police may not have accounted for all the evidence collected after the August 16 shooting.
Emotional scenes unfolded at the Farlam commission, after clips showing the shootings that took place on August 16 at Lonmin.
The use of lethal force in the days ahead of the August 16 Marikana shootings was justified, the National Union of Mineworkers is expected to testify.
NUM officials and Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi were pelted with stones by some protesters at AngloGold Ashanti’s mine near Orkney.
After a week that saw mounting arrests to counter the spreading strikes, the Trotskyite Democratic Socialist Movement paused to plot a way forward.
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.
The receding dominance of print and the pre-eminence of the internet had every writer and reader thinking articles would be reduced to 140 letters.
The National Union of Mineworkers seems to have failed its members, but will a union born of violence fare any better?
Violence has become the modus operandi of such strikes in South Africa and Lonmin is no exception, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
Amcu seems to have gained ground at the Lonmin mine after the NUM president was ejected from the union meeting, following violence that left 10 dead.
Settlement talks for fired workers have stalled again after employer Mega Express skipped scheduled negotiations for a fifth consecutive time.
An agricultural firm in the US will not say why it pulled out of plans to fund a film on an apartheid-busting social rugby club of the 1980s.
Gauteng’s second-best municipality seems to have a grip on things, but service delivery still falls short, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
El-P has moved towards the mainstream, or at least a wider audience. Thankfully, he has pulled it off without sacrificing urgency and proficiency.
Boys in Mpondoland are going behind their parents’ backs to attend dodgy initiation schools that too often claim the lives of youths who would be men.
Education honcho in car swap with EduSolutions director