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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?

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’

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

Questioned: Police videographer Abrahm Masinya. (Photo: Paul Botes)

Marikana murder trial resumes

The eight-year battle for justice played out its next round in the Mahikeng high court this week

Gatvol: Citizens march to the Union Buildings in Pretoria protesting against corruption in government. (Delwyn Verasamy)

Unethical businesses will face people’s protest

Companies must behave like model democratic citizens if they are to earn and retain society’s social licence to operate

Remember Marikana: Families of the miners killed in 2012 by the police laid flowers commemorated the seventh anniversary earlier this year. Andile Zulu argues that the appetite for brutality in the police did not end with apartheid. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Citizens ache for new form of politics

Talking about a revolution is fitting given the state’s performance over the past 25 years

Ablaze: Mandla Mlangeni, bandleader of the Tune Recreation Committee, conducts a music workshop at Amazink in Kayamandi, Stellenbosch, where a free concert will be held this Saturday. (David Harrison)
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Mlangeni & SA’s syncopated society

The musician may not have known who to vote for, but he is in tune with our political past and present

Bubble: Palladium, a vital element in many catalytic converters, now costs upwards of $1?500 an ounce

Palladium surge helps to save miners

The hike in the price of the sister metal has helped to turn around the fortunes of several local companies

Hard-hitting: The Widows of Marikana (above), an artwork that appears in Business as Usual, depicts the price of capitalism — shattered families.

Rapacious miners unmasked

This coffee-table book exposes the ugly face of so-called socially responsible corporates

The competition tribunal hearings were contested by Lonmin’s largest trade union, the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union over the possibility of job losses. (Paul Botes/M&G)

Sibanye-Lonmin deal one step closer, moratorium on job cuts

The South African Competition Tribunal approved Sibanye’s acquisition of Lonmin subject to agreed conditions between the two companies

Amcu President Joseph Mathunjwa has accused Sibanye-Stillwater of paying large salaries to executives while “not sharing the wealth” with workers. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Amcu firm on Sibanye strike, warns of fresh strike in platinum sector

Amcu President Joseph Mathunjwa promised to embark on a secondary strike in the platinum sector, at a yet-to-be-determined date