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Spectre of Marikana still looms large
The bloody spectre of of the Marikana massacre continues to loom large over the politics of South Africa, for all the evident attempts to push it into the background. And the calls for justice, not only for the families of the dead and the injured of Marikana but for mining communities generally will only grow louder.
Criminalising desperate mine workers
September 25, 2016
Driven by poverty to artisanal mining, enterprising workers are criminalised for being entrepreneurial. At the same time, the SA government, perhaps with good intentions, seems likely to create a disaster with changes to compensation coverage for miners.
Marikana, mining and idustrial peace
August 21, 2016
The circumstances surrounding the deaths at Marikana four years ago should provide a bloody and tragic lesson about the reality of South Africa’s mineral wealth. Marikana should become a reminder of a brutal industrial history and a symbol for the struggle to improve the lives of workers, everywhere.
Marikana: the pain SA ignores at its peril
March 8, 2014
Warnings that SA will ignore Marikana at its peril, today seem even more appropriate than they did only days after the massacre.
The ‘Fat Cat’ charter of limited liability
June 17, 2011
Miners have died and thousands of dependents — wives, mothers, children and others —are suffering, many cold and hungry in the Highveld winter. They are the casualties of the ambitions of Aurora Empowerment Systems, the company that took control of the Grootvlei and Orkney mines from the bankrupt Pamodzi Gold in 2009. The promises of […]
Terry Bell Writes 
August 17, 2017
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