A Collusion of Political Energy and Capital, 14 Years On
Fourteen years after the tragedy at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana, the 16 August 2012 bloodbath stays a big occasion in South Africa’s democratic historical past. The state’s killing of 34 putting mineworkers was greater than only a failure in policing; it highlighted a critical disaster within the nation’s political economic system. Marikana revealed the…