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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'we are ending this today, don’t ask me how, but today we are ending this.'
Mokgadi Mogy Mashako Having to make the mental and emotional shift in no time at all when switching between characters takes a lot of focus…
THE return of the award-winning theatre piece Marikana- The Musical at the State Theatre this month marks 10 years since the massacre – that claimed…
Mineworkers employed by Lonmin Plc rush to catch the bus to work after a month long strike that resulted in the killing of 44 people…
Photojournalist Leon Sadiki covered the Marikana strike and took the picture of ‘The Man in the Green Blanket’ which has come to symbolise the protest…
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…
The fall of the apartheid era in 1994 led to the belief that the South African Police Service (SAPS) would move on from serving the apartheid government’s interests, to serving the public. However recent altercations between the SAPS and poor black civilians in South Africa have led to a theory that the SAPS have not in fact gone through a sufficient change.