Recently, a proposed amendment announced by the Tshiamiso Trust — set up to disburse compensation — now threatens to shut out even more former mine-workers with the disease from…
Bold and assertive Cyril debunks the myth of a weak and indecisive leader
A small agricultural miracle is transforming a community in the Cradle of Humankind
On 16 August it will be 12 years since 34 miners were killed by the police at Lonmin mine during a strike, but the state still has not apologised to the families of the victims,…
The president cautioned the Economic Freedom Fighters leader to play the ball, not the man
The mining company hosted its fourth annual Marikana memorial lecture on Monday to mark the 11th anniversary of the massacre
The Marikana Massacre, which occurred on August 16, 2012, was a tragic and deeply unsettling event in South African history. In the town of Marikana, North West province,…
No matter the quality of the work inquiries do, they are designed to create a simulacrum of accountability, of justice. They appease the public
Inside the Cosatu and Saftu national shutdown
The family of one of the victims of the shooting has received neither money nor an apology
Images from the 10th Marikana Massacre commemoration
Sibanye-Stillwater, which inherited the project after purchasing Lonmin, now looks to finish the project by next year.
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
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.
The injustices of the apartheid era have survived and expanded, and human rights flouder, in a state that was supposed to be founded on the rule of law and constitutionalism
Eight out of the 44 widows are still waiting for their houses but Sibanye-Stillwater says they are ‘under construction’
Law enforcement cannot function adequately if its leadership structures are dysfunctional
