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White crosses mark the location of the Marikana massacre.

We are on the right side of history, says Froneman of  Sibanye’s response to Marikana

The mining company hosted its fourth annual Marikana memorial lecture on Monday to mark the 11th anniversary of the massacre

Ten years later, still no memorial park at site of Marikana massacre

Sibanye-Stillwater, which inherited the project after purchasing Lonmin, now looks to finish the project by next year.

After a two-year halt of gatherings to mark the anniversary of the 16 August 2012 shooting due to the Covid-19 pandemic, those who survived the shooting as well as mine union officials and politicians gathered for the 10th commemoration in North West province. (Paul Botes/M&G)

‘Justice for Marikana will only be served if we see Ramaphosa behind bars’ – Amcu president

The mineworker union’s Joseph Mathunjwa spoke at the ten-year anniversary of the massacre

The major economic and political questions of Marikana remain

Why do representative bodies like the union, the party and the so-called left seem to fail their constituents during struggles like Marikana?

Marikana lawsuits to be finalised by end of August

The state has already paid out R170-million in claims following the August 2012 massacre

Members of the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) dance and sing around Wonderkop Hill during the 4th anniversary of the Marikana shooting in Rustenburg, South Africa. (Photo by Shiraaz Mohamed/Anadolu Agency/Getty Images)

10 years later, not all Marikana widows have received promised houses

Eight out of the 44 widows are still waiting for their houses but Sibanye-Stillwater says they are ‘under construction’

Marikana court case back to haunt Ramaphosa

Lawyers seeking R1-billion in damages allege President Cyril Ramaphosa’s phone calls and emails in 2012 set the stage for the unlawful killing of 34 miners

Scant progress: A view of the Marikana smelter from Nkaneng. (Paul Botes/M&G)

R170m of Marikana claims settled, but legal wrangles continue

Claimants are free to approach the state attorney’s office to check whether the figures released by the solicitor general are correct, the government says.

Ongoing struggle: Mineworkers commemorate the 2012 Marikana massacre, two years later. At the Farlam commission, witnesses had differing views on what stick-carrying signified. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Time in Marikana has stood still

In Nkaneng the memory of the 44 people murdered will not leave the community

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

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…

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Editorial: Marikana must haunt us

The blight on our past and our future must haunt us as much as it haunts the victims left behind

Riah Phiyega was two months into her job as national commissioner when police killed 34 striking miners in the North West town of Marikana on 16 August 2012.

Phiyega bid to sidestep Marikana massacre dismissed

Ex-police commissioner Riah Phiyega hoped to quash findings including colluding in a cover-up and misleading the public about what happened at the platinum mine in 2012.

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)

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.

South African mining output decreased by 0.8% in May. Photo: Waldo Swiegers/Bloomberg/Getty Images

Platinum records for South African mines

The miners are in a comfortable position as the world creeps towards a lower-carbon future

​No apology or comfort as another Marikana mother dies without justice

Nomawethu Ma’Bhengu Sompeta, whose funeral will be held this weekend, was unequivocal in calling out the government for its response to the Marikana massacre