Hope faces off against power in Marikana trial

Hope faces off against power in Marikana trial
The family members of mineworkers killed during the Marikana massacre in 2012 have yet to see a police officer held to account
14 May 2021 - 10:32 By Niren Tolsi
Police fire on mineworkers at Marikana in the North West. File photo.
Image: Alon Skuy
The public area in the Mahikeng high court was populated with history’s ghosts at the resumption of the murder trial of the police officers implicated in the strike at Marikana in 2012 that left 44 people dead.
There were close to 20 of the widows and other family members of the 37 mineworkers the police killed during the 10-day wildcat strike. They waited, as they have done for almost a decade, for the first successful prosecution of a police officer for any of the strike-related deaths.

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