Marikana
Family & colleagues have vowed not to give up fight for development of Marikana
The 10th anniversary of the Marikana massacre went off without a hitch on Tuesday with scores gathered at the koppie where the miners were killed.
Community leaders want government to take accountability.
They said that they needed him to respond to their questions on his call of concomitant action during wage-related protests at the Lonmin mine.
Tuesday marked 10 years since 34 protesting Lonmin mineworkers were shot dead, live on TV. Amcu has held a special event to commemorate today's anniversary.
The 10 year anniversary of the massacre is being marked today. Led by president Joseph Mathunjwa, the union’s programme included messages from survivors of the massacre, and messages from the families of slain workers.
The organising union, Amcu, was hoping to amass over 25,000 people to observe the commemoration of the 10th anniversary of the Marikana Massacre but at the moment, the crowd is far from that target.
Marikana has come alive with those gathered seemingly in a jovial mood as they harmonise struggle songs. Those with entrepreneurial zeal have set up stalls trading items including snacks, chicken feet, cold drinks and even alcohol.
Community leaders, unions, mineworkers and some politicians are expected to be among attendees of what has been described as an event of global importance.
August 2022 marks 10 years since the Marikana massacre happened. The community of Nkaneng township, which is near the hills where the shooting took place still remembers the tragedy. One of them, Kegotsogang was there and says that nothing has changed since then. #Marikana
The koppie where the workers were gathering on that fateful Friday afternoon where the police indiscriminately fired live ammunition at the striking miners is the backdrop of Tuesday’s event.
August 16 will officially mark 10 years since 34 protesting mineworkers were shot dead by the police during a wage dispute at Lonmin.
While preparations are under way to mark the 10th anniversary of the Marikana Massacre, residents have hit out at the lack of transformation in the small mining town in the North West.
Speaking to Eyewitness News on Monday, the union’s North West secretary Phuthuma Manyathi explained that workers would be perplexed if the president were to show up at tomorrow’s 10-year commemoration event.
A roundtable discussion reflecting on the 10 years since the Marikana Massacre.
Eyewitness News spoke to Nokuthula Zibambele, the widow of one of the slain miners in the Marikana massacre in 2012. #Marikana Filmed and edited by Abigail Javier Interviewer: Theto Mahlaokana
In this special report, Eyewitness News speaks to adults and children who were yet to come of age when the events unfolded, changing their lives forever.
Nokuthula Zibambele said that her life and that of their 10 children had changed for the worst since that fateful day on 16 August 10 years ago.
Ten years after her husband was killed during a wage strike at Marikana, Nokuthula Zibambele, relives the fraught final conversations she had with him before his death.
August 2012 is remembered as a tragic memory in post-apartheid South Africa when 34 miners were killed in Marikana during a protest for wage increases. Eyewitness News went back to Marikana to speak to the children of the miners who passed away in the 2012 massacre.