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#Miners_Shot_Down

In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more.The police insisted that they shot in self- defense. Miners Shot Down tells a different story, one that unfolds in real time over seven days, like a ticking time bomb.

The film weaves together the central point-of-view of three strike leaders, Mambush, Tholakele and Mzoxolo, with compelling police footage, TV archive and interviews with lawyers representing the miners in the ensuing commission of inquiry into the massacre. What emerges is a tragedy that arises out of the deep fault lines in South Africa’s nascent democracy, of enduring poverty and a twenty year old, unfulfilled promise of a better life for all. A campaigning film, beautifully shot, sensitively told, with a haunting soundtrack, Miners Shot Down reveals how far the African National Congress has strayed from its progressive liberationist roots and leaves audiences with an uncomfortable view of those that profit from minerals in the global South.

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You strike a woman, you strike a rock
▻https://africasacountry.com/2018/04/you-strike-a-woman-you-strike-a-rock

In August 2012, police massacred 34 mineworkers at a platinum mine owned by multinational Lonmin in Marikana in

“Miners Shot Down;” a haunting and emotional documentary
▻http://africasacountry.com/miners-shot-down-a-haunting-and-emotional-documentary

When Mzoxolo Magidiwana, a miner from #Marikana in #South_Africa’s Northwest Province, traces his family lineage of miners at #Lonmin Mines, he invokes in me memories of how I narrowly escaped becoming a miner, breaking the lineage from my father. I spent my early twenties in Sasolburg, a small coal-mining town in the Northern Free […]

#FILM #MEDIA #POLITICS #Cyril_Ramaphosa #Miners_Shot_Down #Miners_Strike #platinum

Afrique du Sud : un mineur tué par balles près du site de Marikana
▻http://www.afrik.com/afrique-du-sud-un-mineur-tue-par-balles-pres-du-site-de-marikana

Un mineur âgé de 49 ans a été tué par balles dimanche en Afrique du Sud, près du site de Marikana, exploité par le groupe Lonmin, a annoncé ce mardi la police, selon les médias locaux. Cette dernière n’est cependant pas en mesure de confirmer un lien éventuel avec la rivalité meurtrière entre les deux principaux syndicats du secteur, le NUM, proche du Congrès national africain (ANC) au pouvoir, et l’AMCU. L’an dernier, près de 50 personnes ont péri dans des grèves où ils réclamaient l’amélioration de leurs conditions de vie. En août 2012, la police a réprimé une grève des mineurs du site de Marikana, faisant 34 morts. Lonmin, troisième producteur mondial de pétrole, avait suspendu sa production pendant des semaines, et a dû demander le soutien financier de ses actionnaires.

The poor bosses
▻http://africasacountry.com/poor-bosses

Miners at multinational #Lonmin platinum mine at Marikana in Rustenburg, #South_Africa, speaking to (South African) Sunday Times reporter Lucky Biyase: ‘Whenever we ask for a wage increase, these companies plead poverty and threaten us with retrenchments. This is because they don’t want to pay money to black people. Why work when you don’t get [...]

#HISTORY #mining

#Marikana : Lonmin strike ending, tensions remain | beyondbrics
►http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2012/09/19/lonmin-strike-ending-but-tensions-remain

Tuesday evening’s resolution of the strike at Lonmin, the South African platinum miner, is a welcome end to five weeks of industrial action marked by mass protests violently suppressed and 45 deaths. (...)

But there is a danger that the manner of its resolution could cause further unrest in the future.

(...) Lonmin’s strike was resolved not by the miners’ unions but by informal representatives of the strikers including miners, community leaders and the South African Council of Churches. Workers at other mines, some of whom have also staged disruptive actions during the Lonmin crisis, may see the Lonmin outcome as a precedent. If they conclude that illegal strikes are effective, that can’t be good for the industry’s stability.
(...)
Mining is central to the South African economy. Jacob Zuma, South Africa’s president, has raised the spectre of the sector’s problems tipping the economy into recession. That makes a peaceful and lasting solution to the industry’s problems – not least the ongoing strike at Gold Fields – all the more urgent.

S Africa Lonmin miners set to end strike - FT.com
►http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/cf7347a4-01aa-11e2-81ba-00144feabdc0.html

Striking mineworkers in South Africa’s rich platinum belt and Lonmin, the London-listed company, reached a wage agreement on Tuesday that should signal the end of more than five weeks of industrial action marred by violence and 45 deaths.
The agreement covers several levels of mineworkers, including the 3,000 rock drill operators that started the strike, with an average rise in salaries of between 11 per cent and 22 per cent, as well as a one-off R2,000 ($244) bonus, Lonmin said in a statement.

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Makana, Mandela, Marikana — endings and beginnings | Charlene Smith
►http://www.thoughtleader.co.za/charlenesmith/2012/08/20/makana-mandela-marikana-endings-and-beginnings

At Marikana we saw the product of a fat and lazy cabinet. At Marikana: in those policemen we saw the result of two corrupt commissioners of police — one of whom was recently released early from jail. Our police are poorly trained, badly equipped, and scared. We saw in Lonmin the sort of uncaring corporate bullying that we see with the banks. And among the miners we saw the desperation the poor experience, we saw in their violence the futile rage that unless South Africans wake up and start pushing for social justice — that rage will sweep across the nation.

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