In 2012 photographer Alon Skuy was alerted to a miners’ strike in Marikana in North West province. He headed to the town, little knowing the tragedy that would unfold in the next few days would be the lowest point in SA’s democratic history.
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Police bosses should have learnt from the Marikana massacre, but in the 10 years since, the cop service has been plagued by successive scandals involving claims of corrupt leaders and criminality.
Victims are still fighting for justice a decade after Marikana and have vowed to continue trying to hold President Cyril Ramaphosa and others accountable for the massacre as so much, but so little, seems to have changed.