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FILE: Community of Marikana demonstrating at the 10th commemoration event of the Marikana Massacre. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

Marikana

Family & colleagues have vowed not to give up fight for development of Marikana

By Nokukhanya Mntambo

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.

  • One South Africa Movement leader Mmusi Maimane in Marikana on Tuesday, 16 August 2022. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    SA govt criticised for neglecting Marikana 10 years after massacre

    Community leaders want government to take accountability.

    7 hours ago
  • Wreaths laid by the families of the slain Marikana miners at the 10 commemoration on Tuesday, 16 August 2022. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    'There's no reason for Ramaphosa to fear coming to Marikana' - widows

    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.

    9 hours ago
  • Widows of some of the Marikana Massacre victims at the 10th commemoration on Tuesday, 16 August 2022. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    Widows of Marikana Massacre victims call for justice 10 years on

    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.

    17 hours ago
  • Amcu president Joseph Mathunjwa (L in green t-shirt) at the Marikana Massacre commemoration under way on Tuesday, 16 August 2022. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    Amcu leaders arrive in Marikana

    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.

    23 hours ago
  • Hundreds of mineworkers and community members have gathered in Marikana on 16 August 2022 for the tenth anniversary of the massacre of 34 mineworkers. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Slow start as hundreds gather for commemoration ceremony of Marikana Massacre

    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.

    one day ago
  • Mineworkers and community members gather in Marikana on 16 August 2022 for the 10th anniversary of the massacre of 24 striking mineworkers. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Festive air prevails ahead of Marikana Massacre commemoration

    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.

    one day ago
  • Community members arrive in Marikana on 16 August 2022 to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the tragedy. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Community gathers to mark tenth anniversary of Marikana Massacre

    Community leaders, unions, mineworkers and some politicians are expected to be among attendees of what has been described as an event of global importance.

    one day ago
  • Marikana community: Nothing has changed since the massacre

    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

    one day ago
  • Marikana koppie. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Marikana wakes up to little change 10 years after 34 miners killed in massacre

    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.

    one day ago
  • Marikana koppie. Picture: Abigail Javier/EWN

    Amcu to mark 10th anniversary of Marikana Massacre as a decade of betrayal

    August 16 will officially mark 10 years since 34 protesting mineworkers were shot dead by the police during a wage dispute at Lonmin.

    one day ago
  • A woman with children filling up buckets with water from a Jojo tank in Nkaneng, Marikana. Photo: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Life in Marikana has worsened since 2012 tragedy, says resident

    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.

    one day ago
  •  President Cyril Ramaphosa. Picture: @PresidencyZA/Twitter.

    Amcu: Marikana remains a no-go zone for Ramaphosa until he apologises

    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.

    one day ago
  • A woman washing her clothes in Inkaneng, Marikana. Photo: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News.

    Marikana 10 years on: What has changed?

    A roundtable discussion reflecting on the 10 years since the Marikana Massacre.

    2 days ago
  • 'I can't find it in myself to forgive yet' - Marikana widow remembers 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

    2 days ago
  • Nineteen-year-old Kabelo Molati stands in front of the Koppie where his uncle was killed in the 2012 Marikana massacre. Photo: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Ten years on, Marikana children still dealing with trauma of tragedy

    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.

    2 days ago
  • Nokuthula Zibambele lost her husband in the 2012 Marikana massacre. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Family still counting losses 10 years after Marikana tragedy

    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.

    2 days ago
  • Nokuthula Zibambele lost her husband in the 2012 Marikana massacre. Picture: Abigail Javier/Eyewitness News

    Ten years after Marikana tragedy, widow recalls begging husband to leave strike

    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.

    2 days ago
  • “All we think about is pain” - the children of Marikana remember

    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.

    2 days ago
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