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The illegal miner said the idea of eating human flesh started as a joke among those trapped underground. But as time marched on, it proved prophetic in the end.
President Cyril Ramaphosa’s legacy hangs in the balance. His historic decision to support the case of genocide in the ICJ is in stark contrast to his home-grown atrocity unfolding in front of our eyes.
Ntshavheni’s remarks must be viewed in the context of how the current government under the presidency of Ramaphosa continues to wage a war against the poor.
Ramaphosa’s early political involvement was first shaped by Christian student politics and later Black Consciousness movements. But his trajectory soon intersected with the interests of South Africa’s corporate elite.
The state has failed in its duties to uphold the rights of victims to an effective remedy, says SERI.
The labour movements are also pressing for improvement in wages for mineworkers to reduce poverty.
Simelane said the Marikana tragedy was a sombre chapter in the nation's history that continued to resonate deeply.
The workers were protesting over a wage increase and little has changed for the victims, their families as well as the entire Marikana community.
The storm of inequality and injustice continues. There is no Rainbow in sight for the wretched of the earth, writes Kim Heller.
The workers were protesting for a living wage. The massacre occurred in a milieu of ongoing exploitation of workers, punishing working and living conditions, failed promises by the mine to provide adequate housing, and growing competition and strife between trade unions, NUM and Amcu, the writer says.
It has been 12 years since the Marikana massacre where 34 mineworkers were killed by police.
Nomzamo Zondo said the state’s actions since 2012 had fundamentally altered the families’ lives with disruption, loss and denial.
A younger sibling of one of the slain Lonmin mineworkers has been shot dead with a friend in the Eastern Cape, Ipid is investigating
The renowned journalist took his career to new heights when he joined the South African investigative journalism and current affairs show.
Former senior officers want R3m in compensation for loss of income after Ipid accused them of failing to report mineworker’s death in hospital during massacre
The assertion implies that Ramaphosa’s adherence to these values could be a point of contention, potentially making him susceptible to pressure from political adversaries
While Mongezi Twala, the chairperson of the party in KwaZulu-Natal, was listed as the first person, it did not mean that he would become the province’s first citizen should the EFF win the election.
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This has raised concerns among the community members, who have not ruled out the possibility of bloodshed.
Other mines currently undertaking Section 189 notices include Anglo American Platinum, Seriti Coal and Siyanda Bakgatla Platinum mines.
The BLF leader said Ramaphosa has still not apologised for the Marikana massacre and has never condemned the killing of black South Africans in Phoenix in 2021.