After a week that saw mounting arrests to counter the spreading strikes, the Trotskyite Democratic Socialist Movement paused to plot a way forward.
The Anglo Platinum strike, which has dragged on for more than a month, has become a metaphor for the post-Marikana backlash.
The intensity of the current wave of protest echoes the far-reaching Durban strikes in 1973, writes Lisa Steyn.
As strikers’ stances harden, the increasing threat of closure could make wage demands irrelevant.
Lonmin workers are celebrating the end of their successful strike, but the families of miners slain at Marikana fear their spirits may be lost.
Rock drillers at Lonmin’s Marikana mine have accepted a 22% overall pay increase to end more than five weeks of crippling and bloody strikes.
Julius Malema has geared up his attack on President Jacob Zuma, saying the president must explain why he sent the army into Marikana.
Julius Malema is being investigated for inciting violence during the strike at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, in North West, the Hawks say.
Gwede Mantashe has stated socio-economic issues were to blame for the Marikana tragedy and that the NEC are paying special attention to the event.
Within a few days of the NPA announcement that it was dropping charges of murder against 270 Lonmin miners, a spoof had made its way on the internet.
The Congress for South African Trade Unions’s leadership is too busy playing lapdog while the revolution is being stoked from Sandton.
Widening talk of the dispute over pay issues escalating into a ‘crisis for capital’ is raising serious questions about who is behind it all.
Julius Malema is being helped to foment his "mining revolution" by ANC backers, according to senior youth league figures who continue to support him.
Security guards have fired teargas at protesters at the Gold Fields KDC West mine near Carletonville, where workers have been on strike since Sunday.
Workers at Anglo American Platinum in Rustenburg have been "re-directed" from the mine due to intimidation from striking workers, says the company.
The CCMA says it’s ready to proceed with mediation talks at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in Rustenburg, should workers return to the negotiating table.
Ronald Lamola has questioned why only black people were shot at Lonmin and insisted that "the ruling class is still dominated by white people".
The violent protests at Lonmin’s Marikana mine reflected an "exploding bomb" created by poverty and inequality, says Zwelinzima Vavi.
South Africa’s economic growth will remain subdued in the medium term due to unrest in the platinum sector and a weak global economic environment.
Our mining industry is being sucked into a vicious cycle as labour unrest spreads, with steep wage demands that the industry cannot afford.
As Zuma detractors denounce and Malema makes merry, the Marikana tragedy is proving to be a decisive factor in the run-up to Mangaung. Watch the video.
Released from custody yesterday, the over 200 Lonmin miners arrested after the Marikana tragedy arrived at the North West mine just before midnight.
After the Hefer, Ginwala, Donen or Ngoepe inquiries, any hope of the Farlam Commission getting to the bottom of the Marikana tragedy is naive at best.
Julius Malema’s attempts to capitalise on the Marikana mine shootings continued on Thursday as he visited Grootvlei gold mine on the East Rand.
Malema visited Aurora mine on Thursday to lambaste Zuma and Ramaphosa, and encourage miners not to go to work on Monday.
In the wake of the Marikana massacre, the victory of the miners who ended SA’s largest-ever industrial strike 25 years ago today rings all too hollow.
Cosatu’s Zwelinzima Vavi fields tough questions on the union’s lack of leadership at Marikana, running for office in the ANC and more — full podcast.
People detained in connection with the violence at Lonmin’s Marikana mine were assaulted in police custody, a court has heard.
The Lonmin mine tragedy has been hijacked by "counter-revolutionaries" who wish to undermine the alliance, ANC secretary general Gwede Mantashe.
The killing of 44 people during the violent strike at Lonmin mines has highlighted the depth of internal politics between mining unions NUM and Amcu.
Lonmin mines has estimated that at least 57% of workers across the eastern shaft at their Platinum mine in Marikana have returned to work.
Before the Marikana massacre, the M&G’s Heidi Swart joined rock-drill operators at the bottom of a Lonmin shaft to see conditions there firsthand.