In the direct aftermath of the Marikana massacre, the narrative put out by police was that mine workers were shot by cops in danger acting out of self-defence. This might have stayed the official story of Marikana were it not for a brave team of researchers and one battle-hardened journalis.
As the country prepares to remember that horrific day 10 years ago, the victims’ families tell Daily Maverick of their sense of betrayal and justice not served, giving their lingering grief an acute edge.
Speaking to Eyewitness News on Monday, the union’s North West secretary Phuthuma Manyathi explained that workers would be perplexed if the president were to show up at tomorrow’s 10-year commemoration event.
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While South Africa’s labour laws are either celebrated or bemoaned as some of the most progressive in the world, even progressive collective bargaining law accepts unquestioningly the desirability of maintaining the basic structure of a liberal capitalist order.