Sheer disbelief and outrage greeted the murderous shootings by the police that claimed the lives of 34 miners and injured 78 others, at the Lonmin platinum mines. Now outrage has swept across the country, as insult is added to injury when it was announced that 270 striking miners will stand accused […]

They were scenes reminiscent of the infamous ‘Sharpeville Massacre’ at the height of the racist apartheid regime. The police murders of 34 striking miners, at the Lonmin platinum mining company at Marakan, revealed the true nature of the present South African government. The promise of the historic ending of apartheid in 1994 lies in tatters. […]