THE ZUMA administration is the subject of a number of public embarrassments. All involve, maladministration, graft and the failure to abide by the rule of law. The latest comes with the release of a report into the 2012 Marikana massacre which led...
Tag: Marikana
Voicing Marikana – Artists Speak
Miners Shot Down released
Marikana Concourt Judgement: An Insult to workers
The judgement took just five minutes. The Constitutional Court dismissed a request by 270 injured and arrested mineworkers from Marikana’s Lonmin mine for leave to appeal for funding from the state for their legal representation at the Farlam Commission of Inquiry. The mineworkers were not even g...
Marikana Commission linked to Apartheid Special Forces?
No, this isn't a joke. The Old South African flag appears to have made a come-back in the choice of colours used for the Marikana "Farlam" Commission. The logical consequence of allowing previous commissions of inquiry to simply rubber-stamp government policy? Does anybody remember the so-called...
Constitutional think-tank statement on the impact of Marikana.
Media Statement by the Advisory Council of CASAC on the impact of Marikana on South Africa's constitutional order We believe that Marikana represents a turning point in South Africa's post-apartheid history. The question is: in what direction will we now go? The serious violations of fundamental...