Introduction: considering the aftermath of Marikana

... The tragic incidents at the Lonmin platinum mine between August 11 and 16, 2012 in which 44 miners were killed, more than 70 injured and approximately 250 people arrested, remains a scar in the tissue of post-democratic South Africa. The massacre, described as the worst since the Sharpeville massacre of March 21, 1960, was indicative of underlying crises in government and the fabric of society. In terms of the brutality of the shootings, the Marikana ...