Rehad Desai - The Murky Truth Behind Marikana

Author:
SmartMonkeyTV
Publisher:
SmartMonkeyTV
Publication Date:
27 January 2014
Tags:
South Africa, Arts, Culture and Entertainment

Rehad Desai talks about his documentary about the mining strike at Marikana called Miners Shot Down. The interview covers: the origins of the project; how political attitudes to the strike hardened; the evidence of collusion between the mining company and the police; the possibility that a mining company employee might have been responsible for one of the deaths; and the distribution plans for the film.

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