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Xolani Nzuza speaks to injured and arrested miners at the ‘Koppie,’ Marikana, July 2021.
HASSAN FUNDI

No justice left behind after the Marikana massacre

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…

  • Niren Tolsi
14 min read
13 October 2020: Major General William Mpembe, a former provincial commissioner in North West, appears in the high court in Mahikeng during his trial over the death of a striking miner who had died in a police van. (Photograph by Paul Botes)
COLLIN MOGALE

Marikana violence was avoidable, Mahikeng court hears

Testimony about the events of 13 August 2012, when five people died at Marikana, has provided new details of the police’s incompetent handling of the striking mineworker situation.

  • Niren Tolsi
9 min read