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South African Police shot and killed striking mineworkers in Marikana, in 2012. EPA/Kevin Sutherland

August 15, 2018

Marikana: it’s time Ramaphosa moved on accountability and reparations

Mia Swart, Human Sciences Research Council

Some prosecutions followed soon after President Cyril Ramaphosa promised accountability for the Marikana massacre.

The scene of the Marikana massacre in South Africa that some have named the “Hill of Horror”. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

August 16, 2017

What the lack of accountability for Marikana says about Zuma’s government

Bill Dixon, University of Nottingham

Five years on, no-one has been held to account for the Marikana massacre where 34 miners were shot dead by members of the South African Police Service in a single day.

Miners pray during the one-year anniversary commemoration of the killings of 34 striking miners by police outside Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

November 25, 2015

Marikana massacre: how South African journalism failed the test

Ylva Rodny-Gumede, University of Johannesburg

The reporting of the Marikana massacre was characterised by embedded journalism, sensationalism and polarisation of views. The media became a loudspeaker for powerful political and economic interests.

The scene at Marikana on August 16, 2012. The South African Police Services came in for targeted criticism in the Farlam Commission report. Reuters/Siphiwe Sibeko

June 25, 2015

Marikana tragedy must be understood against the backdrop of structural violence in South Africa

Bill Dixon, University of Nottingham

Did the former union leader, multi-millionaire former businessman and current deputy president of South Africa, Cyril Ramaphosa, have the blood of 34 striking mineworkers on his hands?

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