Hope faces off against power in Marikana trial - The Mail & Guardian

Hope faces off against power in Marikana trial
17 May 2021
Phumzile Sokanyile's washed overalls dry in the sun after his death at his home in Mdumazulu in Ngqeleni, Eastern Cape. (Paul Botes/M&G)
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 mine workers 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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