The massacre graphically revealed that a black majority-constitutional democratic state, like its racist white military-police state predecessor, is an organised system of oppression at the core of which, is an armed apparatus for violent repression, that guard and defend the profits, and private property of the capitalist class.
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Plans underway to erect Marikana memorial site
By admin on 21/08/2022
Memorial site aims to heal the families who lost their loved ones and also bring closure
‘We are ending this today, don’t ask me how, but today we are ending this’
By Lucas Ledwaba on 16/08/2022
'we are ending this today, don’t ask me how, but today we are ending this.'
‘Marikana left a massive scar in my life’
By Lucas Ledwaba on 14/08/2021
Photojournalist Felix Dlangamandla was in the line of fire as police shot and killed 34 mineworkers at Marikana on 16 August 2012. In this in-depth…