That awkward moment when it looks like you’re referring to dead people as cast members.
The documentary has earned critical acclaim all over the world.
An investigation into the National Police Commissioner is an ill-advised plot by the South African president to pin the death of mineworkers at Marikana on a scapegoat, the DA has warned.
Between Malema’s promises of cash for the Marikana families and Maimane using those very same people as an opportunity to give the ANC the boot, it’s hard to even remember a time where we mourned our dead instead of using them as political tools.
Julius Malema has called for Ramaphosa’s arrest, following the deputy president’s involvement in Lonmin before becoming vice pressie in 2014.
South African government has allocated R18 billion to improve the socio-economic conditions of distressed mining communities across the country.
Just over a year ago this video came out, highlighting the president – and presidency’s – blunders, hoping to move the populous towards change. That didn’t happen, but there’s another election on the horizon.
There seems to be widespread condemnation of the findings of the Farlam Commission’s Report into the shooting of 34 mine workers at Marikana in 2012.
A group of protesters gathered outside Lonmin’s annual general meeting at Westminster Cathedral and urged shareholders to set aside R1million to house the families of those killed at Marikana in August 2012
Peter Hain, the MP for Neath since 1991, served in the Cabinets of both Tony Blair and Gordon Brown. He was an anti-apartheid activist of note, and is author of a number of books. His most recent book Ad and Wal tells the story of his parents’ struggle against the oppressive apartheid regime and his new book Back to the Future of Socialism will be published in late January.
On Thursday 11 September 2014, Richmix hosted a screening of ‘Miners Shot Down’. We were subsequently joined by director, Rehad Desai, for a short Q & A
Officially selected for the African Film Festival in New York, the Sheffield Doc Fest and the Durban International Film Festival, ‘MIners Shot Down’ will now be screened for one night only in London on 11 September
A powerful and disturbing documentary, beautifully shot, sensitively told and featuring a haunting soundtrack, ‘Miners Shot Down’ paints a disturbing picture of the mechanisms of power in South Africa, where corporations make profits by exploiting the poorest.
People living in informal settlements in the troubled mining area of Marikana will get 2,000 new houses over the next three years.
A powerful and disturbing film, beautifully shot, sensitively told and featuring a haunting soundtrack, Miners Shot Down paints a disturbing picture of the mechanisms of power in South Africa, where corporations make profits by exploiting the poorest.
Lonmin chairman retires and Amplats considers closing Rustenburg and Union mines as platinum miners strike enters its tenth week.
The scrapping of the migrant labour system in South Africa is the subject of ongoing discussion between the government and the mining companies, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan and Mineral Resources Minister Susan Shabangu told mine investors in London last week.
The National Union of Mineworkers’ fight against “slave wages” adds pressure on South Africa’s already ailing economy as 80,000 workers take part in industrial action.
One year on from South Africa’s most bloody act of state brutality since apartheid days, what has been the aftermath of the Marikana massacre, and have living and working conditions for mineworkers changed much since?
The unnamed woman, believed to be in her fifties, was killed at the Lonmin platinum mine where on 16 August last year 34 miners were shot dead by police.
Channel 4 reporter Inigo Gilmore speaks to the wife of Andries Tatane, a South African activist killed by police in 2011, and reveals compelling new evidence of the police’s role during and after the Marikana massacre in 2012.