The deaths of 34 miners during the Marikana massacre in 2012 will be commemorated by the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) on Wednesday at the hillside where the massacre ...

MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - Almost three years after South African police shot 34 striking miners dead outside platinum producer Lonmin's Marikana mine, little has changed in this hardscrabble ...

MARIKANA, South Africa (AP) — Mine worker Mziseni Zotyatha lives in a neat, one-room metal shack with plastic sheeting stretched above his bed to keep out the rain. He must go elsewhere for running ...

MARIKANA, South Africa (Reuters) - A retired judge toured the spot where police killed 34 striking platinum miners in August as he opened a judicial inquiry on Monday into South Africa's bloodiest ...

The 34 striking mine workers were killed by police at the mine operated by London-listed Lonmin, where he was then a non-executive director. "I would like to use this opportunity to address what role ...

The decision late Thursday by South Africa’s state prosecutors to use a notorious apartheid-era law to charge 270 striking miners with the murder of 34 of their colleagues — men who were actually shot ...

However keynote speaker Dr Mamphela Ramphele told the second annual memorial lecture, organised by new mine owner Sibanye-Stillwater, the lessons learnt were beginning to bear fruit. "Their courage to ...

Politics and labor organizing were always tightly intertwined in South Africa, ever since a series of militant strikes in the late 1980s helped make the country ungovernable, forcing the country’s ...

It was a sad day for the mining industry last Thursday when South African police opened fire on striking drill workers at Lonmin's Marikana mine, killing 34 people and injuring twice as many. The ...

Ben Fogel on South Africa after the Marikana Massacre. The article also provides a critique of left strategy that orientates towards COSATU, the SACP and the state rathering than popular struggles. A ...

The National Prosecuting Authority (NPA) says the case against police officers who were acquitted in relation to the Marikana Massacre will be reinstated. The NPA said the docket has been compiled for ...