MARIKANA (AFP) – Thousands of co-workers and relatives of 34 miners shot dead by South African police during a violent wage strike will gather Friday to mark the first anniversary of their deaths.

Thousands of South African platinum mineworkers gathered on Saturday at Marikana to commemorate the second anniversary of the killing of 34 of their colleagues by police during a strike. The workers ...

Thousands gathered at the hillside where the massacre unfolded 10 years ago - Copyright AFP Arun SANKAR Thousands gathered at the hillside where the massacre unfolded ...

Miners shouted obscenities at a woman wearing a red National Union of Mineworkers T-shirt when she joined the Farlam Commission of Inquiry's inspection “in loco” in Marikana, North West, on Monday.

At the proceedings of the Farlam Commission in South Africa, he represented the families of many of the 34 miners killed in the Marikana massacre in 2012, when police attacked workers on a wildcat ...

On August 16, 2012, the promise of South African democracy shattered on a rocky hill near the Marikana platinum mine. What began as a miners’ strike for fair wages ended in horror as police opened ...

Marikana - Four years after police shot and killed 34 striking mineworkers at a koppie in Nkaneng informal settlement in Wonderkop near Marikana little has changed. There are still shacks erected on a ...

In paying tribute to the 44 mineworkers killed at Marikana on August 16, 2012, labour union the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) will host its ninth commemorative event this ...

The slaying of 34 striking miners by the national police on 16 August 2012 continues to dog the South African president, who at the time sat on the board of Lonmin, the company that owned the mine.

The interdependence between business and stakeholders has never been more critical, nor has the need for collaboration to learn from past events and ensure they are never repeated, Sibanye-Stillwater ...

"Yet, Mthethwa’s career cannot escape its shadows. As police minister, he served at a time of one of South Africa’s darkest democratic episodes—the 2012 Marikana massacre, when police killed 34 ...

Alinah Kelo Segobye received funding from the Rotary Peace Centre for her visiting scholar term at the University of Bradford in 2016. I had the opportunity to watch a performance of “Billy Elliot - ...