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Life in Marikana has worsened since 2012 tragedy, says resident

By Nokukhanya Mntambo

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...

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    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.

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  • 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.

    one day 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.

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    [OPINION] Worker insurgency and the future of mining: Lessons from Marikana

    Social scientist Dr Crispen Chinguno and political economist Khwezi Mabasa weigh in on lessons learned from Marikana.

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    A decade on, after the Marikana Massacre

    Thirty-four miners were shot dead by police and another 10 people were killed, but 10 years on, justice is still to be done.

    5 days ago
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    Amcu says Sibanye-Stillwater should also pay for Marikana Massacre deaths

    The union's president Joseph Mathunjwa spoke to Eyewitness News on the sidelines of their 10th anniversary commemoration of the Marikana Massacre in Johannesburg on Wednesday.

    6 days ago
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    Ten years on Marikana Massacre litigation lingers

    Apart from the miners that were brutally murdered by police at Marikana on 16 August 2012, the state has been dealing with claims from 48 miners who were either unlawfully detained or injured.

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  • FILE: Miners gather during commemorations to mark the fourth anniversary of the Marikana Massacre in Rustenburg on August 16, 2016. Picture: AFP

    Deadly Marikana strike was preceded by years of instability - labour analysts

    Historians have opened up about how the culmination of the strike in a massacre was chillingly reminiscent of the mass killings of protesting black people by the apartheid police in many areas, including Sharpeville in 1960.

    6 days ago
  • FILE: Miners sit at the 'koppie' in Marikana ahead of a programme to commemorate the Marikana massacre, on 16 August 2018. Picture: Pelane Phakgadi/Eyewitness News.

    Remembering Marikana: YCL, Cosatu Young Workers to march to Union Buildings

    August marks 10 years since the Marikana Massacre where 34 miners in the North West were killed at the Wonderkop Koppie outside Rustenburg.

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