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South Africa urged to screen Emmy-winning Marikana Massacre Film

AMA — Wed, 25 Nov 2015 20:24:43 +0000

South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) have been urged by activisits and the civil society to broadcast a documentary depicting the Marikana massacre of 2012 on public television. At least 44 people were killed during strikes at the Lonmin Plantinum mines in the Northwest province in South Africa. Thirty-four were murdered on a single day when [...]

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Marikana Ghosts haunts Ramaphosa

AMA — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:47:36 +0000

Marikana will haunt South Africa’s Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for the rest of his career. Ramaphosa revealed on Thursday in parliament that he’s been summoned by lawyers representing the victims of Marikana – they insist he’s to blame for the police shooting 34 striking platinum miners in 2012. Ramaphosa was a director and shareholder at [...]

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South African Deputy President sued over Marikana Massacre

AMA — Sat, 14 Nov 2015 09:45:29 +0000

The families of South African striking miners shot dead by police at Lonmin’s Marikana mine in 2012 have issued a court summons for Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa over complicity in their deaths, the presidency said. The violence around the Marikana mine during a strike in August, 2012, culminated in the police shooting 34 striking miners [...]

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