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Gov to pay 48 outstanding Marikana litigations by month end

LOCAL The Solicitor General’s office has confirmed that Government will pay the 48 outstanding Marikana litigations by the end of August this year. Families of slain Marikana miners are suing the state and President Cyril Ramaphosa for a billion rand. They are also demanding an apology. Last year about R200 million was paid to those affected by the Marikana massacre. The Solicitor-General Fhedzisani Pandelani says the process of finalising the claims is […]

today11 August 2022

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Marikana trial finally got underway

On 16 August, 2012, a week of bloody clashes at the Lonmin platinum mine in the North West’s Marikana ended with police opening fire on a crowd of striking workers and killing 34 of them. The most lethal use of state force in post-apartheid South Africa’s history, the Marikana massacre and the events leading up to it triggered global outrage at the time. Eight years on, the initial uproar appears […]

today21 October 2020

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To date, no one has taken responsibility for Marikana massacre: AMCU

South Africa’s Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (AMCU) President, Joseph Mathunjwa says to date no one has taken responsibility for the massacre of the mineworkers. He added that the mining company Lonmin has failed to improve the lives of the mining community as they had promised. “How many houses have been built there at Nkanyeni? No improvement, we made money for Lonmin which is now Sibanye but there is […]

today14 August 2020

Local

Protesting Harmony gold miners resurface

Harmony Gold has confirmed that more than a thousand miners who had been staging a sit in at the Kusasalethu mine near Carltonville, west of Johannesburg, have returned to the surface. The miners refused to surface after their shift on Wednesday following a disagreement over money. Harmony Gold says following all night discussions at the mine, the workers have resurfaced. Eighteen miners were earlier evacuated for medical reasons. Harmony Gold […]

today13 January 2017

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