wo proposals made at Winnie Madikizela Mandela’s funeral on Saturday are likely to promote serious political discourse. This is according to PAC leader Luthando Mbinda who has objected saying his party has long been calling for the airport to be renamed after its founding leader, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. “It will be[…]
The trial of 18 suspects linked to crimes in Marikana in 2012 is expected to resume at the Mahikeng High Court sitting in Mogwase outside Rustenburg Monday morning. They are facing charges of murder, robbery, malicious damage to property and unlawful possession of firearm and ammunition following a violent strike[…]
Hundreds of people, including children, have fled Cape Town’s Marikana informal settlement as gangs and community protection patrols fight it out in a war that has left 23 dead in the past three weeks. At night residents are woken by the sound of automatic gunfire as the patrols and criminals[…]
Men dressed in white overalls with green and yellow stripes, wearing black safety boots, and carrying their “skafting” (lunch-box) walk the dusty roads of Marikana in the North West. They return home from the Rowlands mineshaft, which belongs to platinum miner Lonmin, and where most of them are employed. It[…]
Amnesty International urged South African authorities to move forward with prosecutions over the killing by police of 34 people in a single day at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum operations five years ago. “The tragedy of the Marikana killings is compounded by the shocking fact that no one responsible for the bloodshed[…]
The Chairperson of Parliament’s Police Portfolio Committee, Francois Beukma, says they will seek legal advice this week following suspended National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega’s decision to challenge the findings of the Claasen report. According to the report, Phiyega is unfit to hold office. She was suspended in 2015. The move[…]
The Presidency announced on Sunday that government is ready to compensate families of the Marikana victims. “The SAPS has instructed its attorneys to make offers of payments in full settlement of claims for the claims where quantification were complete and are not under criminal investigation,” President Jacob Zuma said in[…]
Struggle stalwart, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, says she plans to lead a campaign to assist the widows and orphans who lost family members during the 2012 Marikana killings. Forty four people including 34 miners, police officers and security guards lost their lives during an unprotected strike at Lonmin mine. Madikizela-Mandela spoke during[…]
The trial of 19 mineworkers appearing on different charges during Marikana massacre are expected to resume at the North West High Court of Mahikeng, North West, on Monday morning. Anele Zonke and others are facing charges of murder, robbery, malicious damage to property and unlawful possession of firearm. The charges relate to[…]
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 dry clay soil – a sign of abject poverty. Nkaneng is one of many informal settlements surrounding platinum mines[…]
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