The powerful documentary, Miners Shot Down, is now on Youtube, appropriately just before the two year anniversary of the police massacre of the striking workers at Marikana, South Africa. The film blurb follows. The link is: https://youtube/watch?v=fPfz4MGIWtY In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers. What emerges is collusion at the top, spiralling violence and the country’s first post-apartheid massacre. South Africa will never be the same again.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 15:54:43 +0000
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