The media was biased in its reporting of what happened in Marikana before and after the shooting of the 34 striking minerworkers in 2012, reducing it to union rivalry, SA Communist Party (SACP) general secretary Blade Nzimande said on Wednesday.
"[The] capitalist, right-wing story-line has attempted to simply reduce the tragedy to a case of intra-union rivalry - Amcu versus the National Union of Mineworkers," Nzimande told SACP members gathered at the University of Johannesburg's Soweto campus for the party's special national congress. "This is a replay of the old apartheid-era 'black on black' violence propaganda. It is a story of 'mindless' blacks bashing each other. We reject it outright."
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