Inside the Cosatu and Saftu national shutdown
Images from the 10th Marikana Massacre commemoration
The mineworker union’s Joseph Mathunjwa spoke at the ten-year anniversary of the massacre
The chair of the commission of inquiry says a personal apology from Cyril Ramaphosa would help families of the dead to heal
Ten years on, the massacre at the mine remains a metaphor for the ills of our society
Fathers talk about their regret for sending their sons to the mines, wives speak about coming to terms with the death of their husbands
Why do representative bodies like the union, the party and the so-called left seem to fail their constituents during struggles like Marikana?
Accountability, insofar as it ever existed in the South African Police Service, has been reduced to a theoretical concept. It is time this changed.
Eight out of the 44 widows are still waiting for their houses but Sibanye-Stillwater says they are ‘under construction’
In Nkaneng the memory of the 44 people murdered will not leave the community
Close to a decade after the Marikana massacre, President Cyril Ramaphosa has not visited the survivors as he promised to do, judges have acquitted police officers, children can’t get jobs and lawlessness reigns
Joyce Jokanisi died without knowing who killed her son in Marikana and while still battling with heartache and depression from the massacre
We must remember the 44 people killed and 78 injured in main part to prevent such actions being repeated