Five years on: Marikana residents still live in dire conditions
Men dressed in white overalls with green and yellow stripes, wearing black safety boots, and carrying their "skafting" (lunch-box) walk the dusty roads of Marikana in the North West. They return home from the Rowlands mineshaft, which belongs to platinum miner Lonmin, and where most of them are employed. It is a few kilometres from the koppie where many mine workers lost their lives on August 16, 2012. On that […]
