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.
MARIKANA - Labour analysts say that the deadly Marikana wage strike that began this week 10 years ago was preceded by years of instability and neglect of important issues in both the workplace and society in general.
It’s a Tuesday afternoon at hostel number one near Sibanye-Stillwaters’ platinum mining operations in Marikana. Tensions that had been simmering among mining unions and members as they battled over territory on the North West platinum belt, with assassinations a common feature, exploded in 2012, leading to the unprotected strike that began on 9 August.
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