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Hard Lessons From South African Mine Massacre Not Yet Learnt

The 2012 Mariklana Massacre saw 34 miners at Lonmin Platinum's Marikana operations shot dead during a protest, an event that drew sharp criticism against the ruling African National Congress, the South African Police Service, and former president Jacob Zuma, who established the Farlam Commission of Inquiry to probe the shooting. The event was a South African tragedy. It was also a policing disaster. But little has changed to improve policing in the country since then. One reason for this is the failure of government and the South African Police Service to act on recommendations made two years ago by an expert panel set up on the advice of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry, write David Bruce, Gareth Newham, Themba Masuku and Adele Kirsten for the Institute for Security Studies.

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Miners Shot Down

Screenshot from the documentary, Miners Shot Down (file photo).

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