It has been 10 years since Marikana mineworkers embarked on a strike that ended in tragedy. In 2012, 34 mineworkers were shot by police in Marikana, North West, during a standoff with law enforcement ...

Bronwyn Law-Viljoen is a director and the editor of Fourthwall Books, which published this book. Larkin has spent a great deal of time thinking about how to make books and get them into the world. The ...

For director Rehad Desai the unfolding of the Marikana massacre when 34 miners were shot and the detailed story his documentary tells have become a lightning rod for many South Africans horrified at ...

Rustenburg - Police changed their version of events at Marikana to fit the evidence of expert witnesses, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard on Thursday. George Bizos SC, said the police plan and ...

Photographer Felix Dlangamandla witnessed the Marikana shootings on that fateful day in August 2012. He was there in the weeks leading up to the massacre and immediately after. He returned to the ...

A small room measuring roughly nine square metres (100 square foot) built with thin corrugated metal sheets is home for most of the year for one of the survivors of the Marikana massacre which took ...

THEATRE:Marikana-The Musical at the South African State Theatre. This month it will be 10 years since the deadly Marikana Massacre that saw 34 protesting mineworkers killed by police in August 2012.

Two years ago, police in Marikana, South Africa, killed thirty-four platinum miners who were striking against Lonmin, a British-owned mining corporation. At the time, Charlayne Hunter-Gault wrote that ...

The decision by South Africa's state prosecutors to provisionally drop murder charges against the Marikana mineworkers has been welcomed with relief, although speculation continues about who took the ...

Five months after the Marikana Massacre in South Africa, footage of police action at the ‘killing koppie‘ ["hill"] has finally reached the public. This footage somewhat predictably wasn’t brought to ...

Making a musical about one of the most shocking tragedies in South Africa's recent history seems like a dubious decision. After all, we usually associate musicals with camp, glitz and pantomime. But ...

Commissions of inquiry are often nothing but cynical political tools to reestablish a form of normalcy after a nation's traumatic event. It happened in South Africa after the Marikana massacre where ...