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The Marikana massacre took place on the 16 August 2012The incident took place on the 25th anniversary of a nationwide miners strike. On 16 August 2012 the South African Police Service Saps gunned down 34 striking miners at the Lonmin Platinum Mine in Marikana North West.

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On the ninth anniversary of the horrific events that took place in Marikana the Economic Freedom Fighters EFF have reiterated.

Marikana massacre. It has been 9-years since police shot and killed 34 miners in Marikana in the North West. In the days leading up to 16 August 10 people including police officers and security guards were killed. Mpofu contended that the Marikana miners were slain because they wanted to be free of the previous governments colonial and apartheid chains.

The devastating impact of the narrative painted by business police and the state. According to Mpofu the massacre would be remembered as the countrys worst post-apartheid human catastrophe reports SABC News. The events happened in Marikana a place in South AfricaSouth African police forces shot at miners who were protestingThey injured 78 and killed 34 of them.

Following the open fire assault - 250 of the miners were arrested. When the miners in Marikana were massacred. Marikana Massacre 16 August 2012 On 16 August 2012 the South African Police Service SAPS opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana in the North West Province.

The Marikana massacre gave mineworkers an opportunity to choose a union that they believed best represented their interests rather than stay with majority unions. Most of those killed were killed by rifles used by police forces. As the country commemorates the ninth anniversary of the Marikana massacre the National Union of Mineworkers NUM has called on people to.

The official commemoration is. Monitoring NGO Bench Marks Foundation says little progress has been made in bringing those implicated in the killing of 34 miners in Marikana nine years ago. Two years after the Marikana massacre Nowili Nungu walked around Nkaneng with us on a Sunday morning.

Drunken men slurred lecherously from. Thirty-four workers were killed by. They were on strike demanding salary increases.

This was the most lethal use of state force in post-apartheid South Africas history. EFF lament failure to punish those responsible. Pretoria As South Africa on Monday commemorated the 9th anniversary of the August 2012 Marikana massacre in which 44 people were killed.

The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union AMCU says its members at Sibanye Stillwater formerly Lonmin Platinum will not report for duty on Monday as the country marks the 9 th anniversary of the Marikana Massacre. The police killed 34 mineworkers and left 78 seriously injured. EFF leader Julius Malema says his party will push for the private prosecution of President Cyril Ramaphosa over his alleged role in the 2012 Marikana massacre due to.

The untold story of the strike leader who died for workers rights Mgcineni Noki with the striking platinum miners on 16 August. Almost 10 years after the massacre of 34 striking miners by police at Marikana in 2012 the Pretoria High Court has dismissed with costs disgraced former national commissioner of police Riah.

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