Striking Lonmin workers have vowed to stay away from work until their demand for a R12 500 monthly wage is met.
A leaked report shows that the appalling living conditions of Marikana miners are nothing new to Lonmin, despite its social responsibility efforts.
The ANC Youth League has denied any connection to the Friends of the Youth League formation and its actions at Lonmin platinum mine.
Lonmin mines has estimated that at least 57% of workers across the eastern shaft at their Platinum mine in Marikana have returned to work.
A report alleging that arrested mine workers have been assaulted by the police was handed to Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa on Friday.
The figures show that striking platinum workers earn far more than they have told journalists.
A rights issue makes sense and could be good news for investors, an analyst claims
Readers express their views about the events that unfolded in Marikana last week.
The events at Marikana last week have cast such a long shadow that right now it seems we have just two options: doom or gloom.
A week after the Marikana massacre, it is not yet clear what the long-term social, political and economic repercussions will be.
Julius Malema may not have an organised mass base outside the ANC, but he is a past master at going where there is pain.
Statistically speaking, a Marikana massacre occurs many times every year beneath the surface of South Africa’s mining badlands.
The events at Marikana were not only a human tragedy, but also a disaster for policing in SA, one that will leave a stain on the image of the SAPS.
Unless you are trying to bury an unpopular announcement, an intervening news event of terrible magnitude is every spin doctor’s worst nightmare.
The Marikana stand-off will not be an isolated incident if South African mining companies continue to ignore their corporate social responsibilities.
Julius Malema has emerged victorious from the political free-for-all at the Lonmin memorial service, with government ministers being forced to flee.
The Marikana massacre has exposed an increasingly tense relationship between the ANC leadership and its fractious members in North West.
Julius Malema has proved why he is the master of rhetoric when he stirred up a crowd of mourners and forced government ministers to flee to safety.
On Sunday August 19, members of the September National Imbizo set off for Marikana, the crime scene at which workers were shot and killed last week.
A week later there is still no consensus about what happened at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, and crucial questions are not being answered.
State officials and political leaders have joined more than a thousand residents at the memorial service for those killed in the Marikana massacre.
Desperate people do desperate things – like taking advantage of those even more desperate than themselves, writes Khaya Dlanga.
Bongani Madondo on the juju, trigger-happy cops, invincible men and the Marikana Massacre Blues.
In apartheid SA, a situation like that in Marikana would have gone down very differently, according to an unreconstructed commander of the riot squad.
The suggestion, presented with a sprinkling of muti, is that the 34 miners would not have been shot dead if some unseen hand had not been at work.
A political showdown between the government and former ANCYL leaders threatens to hijack the memorial service for slain Lonmin workers in Marikana.
The National Union of Mineworkers seems to have failed its members, but will a union born of violence fare any better?
Our reporters, who have been covering Marikana for several months, answered your questions on the massacre in our live video chat.
The government has refused to reveal its plans to prevent further events like the Marikana strike action in the future – because it’s in mourning.
A conservative Christian minister has blamed feminists, homosexuals and abortion for last week’s Marikana tragedy.
President Jacob Zuma has told Lonmin workers that government did not plan to kill anyone, following the tragedy that left 34 dead and 78 injured.
The Lonmin tragedy has touched even the Pimples. While the politicians talk and the miners mourn, there are greater consequences to what happened in Marikana.