The Marikana albatross around our neck smells worse every passing year
The president and his government must move expeditiously to resolve wounds that have festered for a decade this week
14 August 2022 - 00:00
Ten years ago this week, the country was shocked by the massacre of 34 striking mineworkers at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine in North West. As weeks of labour unrest in support of wage demands came to a head, police mowed down the workers in the kind of bloodletting characteristic of the pre-1994 dispensation — at Sharpeville, in Soweto and in many other places. ..
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