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Gallery: Trade union federations march to Union Buildings

Inside the Cosatu and Saftu national shutdown

Molefi Ntsoele’s body is carried to its final resting place in the mountains of Lesotho. 2012

Gallery: Marikana remembers a tragedy

Images from the 10th Marikana Massacre commemoration

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

Retired judge Ian Farlam says a personal apology from Cyril Ramaphosa would help families of the dead to heal.

Marikana: There should have been disciplinary proceeding, says Ian Farlam

The chair of the commission of inquiry says a personal apology from Cyril Ramaphosa would help families of the dead to heal

Illustration by Tshepo Mosoeu
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Marikana stains the tapestry of South Africa’s democracy

Ten years on, the massacre at the mine remains a metaphor for the ills of our society

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The Mail & Guardian’s first documentary is on Marikana. This is why

Fathers talk about their regret for sending their sons to the mines, wives speak about coming to terms with the death of their husbands

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?

The South African Police Service on Wednesday was unable to tell parliament’s portfolio committee on police exactly how many of its officers were not competent to carry firearms. (RAJESH JANTILAL/AFP via Getty Images)

Confronting the power of the police

Accountability, insofar as it ever existed in the South African Police Service, has been reduced to a theoretical concept. It is time this changed.

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’

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…

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

Lest we forget: Marikana’s fallen

We must remember the 44 people killed and 78 injured in main part to prevent such actions being repeated