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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

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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

The woman who claims to have been married to the deceased must prove that a customary marriage existed before the distribution of the estate can be addressed. (Delwyn Verasamy/M&G)

Customary law can pose problems for widows

Despite a new Act, many women and children are up against discriminatory practices

In Central African Republic

‘I was kicked out of our house by his parents’, say widows

If a man dies in the Central African Republic, his wife is at risk of being evicted from their home by his relatives.

Scarred: Families of the dead miners marked the fourth anniversary of the tragedy knowing they would soon be undergoing psychological evaluation. Photo: Delwyn Verasamy

Marikana widows have to ‘prove’ trauma as the authorities stay mum on compensation

Relatives are going the legal route to try to quantify their pain

Suspended South African Police Service Commissioner

Phiyega mustn’t be spared testimony by Marikana survivors and widows – lawyers

The Claassen inquiry failed to adequately cross-examine the suspended police commissioner, victims’ representatives argue.

Family members fainted and wailed as they each got a turn to remember their loved ones who died at Marikana two years ago.

Grief as Marikana victims remembered

Two years on, the families of the Marikana victims are still waiting to hear who killed their loved ones, what exactly happened, and why.

Widows fight social stigmatisation in Cameroon

Advocacy groups in Cameroon are battling a 500- year-old tradition that deprives widows of their rights.