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South Africa: U.S.$11.7 Million Paid in Marikana Reparations - Govt
SAnews.gov.za, 18 August 2021
Since August 2018, government has paid out at least R170 million in damages to families of those who lost loved ones and those who were injured during the 2012 Marikana tragedy. Read more »
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South Africa: Marikana - 'A Wound That Will Never Fully Heal'
New Frame, 16 August 2021
The police killed Mathabang Ntsenyeho's husband, the sole breadwinner, at Lonmin mine in 2012. Now she struggles to support her family while living with the pain of her loss. Read more »
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South Africa: Nine Years Later and Still No Justice for Marikana Victims
DA, 16 August 2021
The DA joins the nation today in remembering those who lost their lives during the horrific Marikana massacre which claimed the lives of 44 people, including 34 miners, on 16… Read more »
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South Africa: The Women of Marikana
New Frame, 16 August 2021
The men killed at Marikana were supported by their wives and mothers, who came out on to the street to help during the chaos and also bore the brunt of police brutality. Read more »
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South Africa: 'I Don't Feel Like a Citizen of This Country'
New Frame, 13 August 2021
The wives and children of the miners murdered in 2012 during a strike at Marikana's Lonmin mine wait for justice that never comes while languishing in a town with few… Read more »
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South Africa: Marikana - the Struggle for Breath and Dignity
New Frame, 13 August 2021
The Marikana area in North West province may be rich in platinum group metals, but the profits from mining them do not benefit residents, who have little hope of improving their… Read more »
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South Africa: 'The Only Way to Honour Massacred Miners of Marikana Is for Miners to Own 51 Percent of Mines' - Xolani Dube
Daily Maverick, 11 August 2021
'Remember Marikana, 16 August 2012. Our democratic government massacred workers protesting for economic emancipation. Their blood still cries from the ground'. These words were… Read more »
Marikana Unchanged Despite Reparations Paid by South African Govt
Nine years after the Marikana Massacre - where 34 miners striking for higher monthly wages were killed by the South African Police Service - Solicitor General Fhedzisani Pandelani released a statement claiming that, since August 2018, at least U.S.$11.7 million in damages has been paid to the families during the 2012 tragedy. Pandelani says government has been negotiating with and compensating families through five legal representatives for claims for loss of support, emotional shock and suffering, unlawful arrests and detentions and personal injuries.
Marikana still finds itself largely undeveloped and at the mercy of the mining companies that populate the platinum belt, writes Bonile Bam for New Frame. Life in the town, which the striking miners wanted to improve by demanding pay of U.S.$866 a month, hasn't changed much for those who remain. Most of the families who reside there are impoverished.
"Dust is our main problem. Sometimes it is difficult to breathe," said Marikana resident Josephina Khumalo. "Most of us have been living in these so-called temporary houses built by Tharisa for a long time. Because we see that the two-room structures can't fit the whole family, we decided to extend it by building the shacks next to it in order to accommodate our children."
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