Close to a decade after the Marikana massacre, President Cyril Ramaphosa has not visited the survivors as he promised to do, judges have acquitted police officers, children can’t get jobs and lawlessness reigns.
In many of the murder trials postponements have been followed by more postponements.
Submitted to the police minister in May 2018, it gathers dust as public order policing continues to fail South Africans. , an innocent bystander, during student protests outside Wits University in Johannesburg earlier this year. Segalala is frustrated. His father would come to him in the years after the massacre and communicate: to say that their family home in Setlagole village in the North West needed repairs, or that his brother’s friends were taking advantage of him after a financial windfall.
Segalala sits outside his two-room hostel unit. He is smoking again. His habit remains as consistent as his hope: “I was speaking with Nomzamo recently, hopefully she can help me track down the number plate of the truck in which my father died. Maybe I can start with a cleansing ritual there,” he says.Zameka Nungu has always ensured that her daughter, Nowili, had her head screwed on right.
The shack settlements surrounding the mines still do not have piped running water and waste removal. Electricity connections are mainly illegal. Men still treat women like chattel.
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