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Aug 18, 2022 · In Miners Shot Down, a documentary of the massacre, strike leader Mzoxolo Magidiwana decreed that “poverty forces you to forget your ambition, leave school and work as a rock driller at the same mine where your boss will be the son of your father’s boss.”
Nov 24, 2015 · ‘Miners Shot Down’, the documentary film about the Marikana killings, has won the International Emmy award for best documentary. Here Cape Town journalist and documentary filmmaker, Yazeed...
Aug 12, 2014 · Miners Shot Down. South Africa’s miner strike led to the country’s deadliest act of police violence since the end of apartheid.
Rehad Desai’s beautifully filmed and uncompromising documentary, ‘Miners Shot Down’, is about so much more than the massacre by police of 34 striking workers at the Lonmin platinum mine at...
Nov 20, 2015 · 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 ammu...
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Nearly 40 miners were shot dead by the South African police service at the Marikana Massacre in 2012 - the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since 1960.
Aug 12, 2014 · The film, “ Miners shot down ” traces the complicated and devastating chain of events leading up to what was labeled as “The Marikana Massacre”. Filmmaker Rehad Desai spoke to Al Jazeera from...
