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Marikana: A Report from South Africa
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Marikana: A Report from South Africa

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On 16 August 2012, the world looked on in horror as South African police gunned down striking mine workers at Marikana, leaving thirty-four dead and many more wounded. It was a massacre that echoed apartheid-era violence at Sharpeville and Soweto, shattering the international image of South Africa as a liberated 'rainbow nation'. The bloodshed laid bare the lingering inequalities and class tensions that have endured beyond South Africa’s democratic transition, and which the ruling African National Congress has done little to address.

Marikana, an ebook exclusive by award-winning Guardian journalist Jack Shenker, explores the origins of the massacre and the truth behind the establishment’s attempted cover-up, which has played out against a backdrop of growing popular disillusionment with the ANC and a spike in worker militancy. Weaving together the history of international mining interests in southern Africa, the mutation of the ANC from economic radicals into free-market cheerleaders and the emergence of new forms of popular resistance, Marikana poses vital questions about the massacre’s legacy both within South Africa’s borders and beyond. Offering a new and invaluable insight into one of the darkest episodes in South Africa’s modern history, Shenker’s work could not be more timely.

LanguageEnglish
PublisherZed Books
Release dateApr 16, 2015
ISBN9781783606436
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Marikana: A Report from South Africa
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Jack Shenker

Jack Shenker is a journalist and author based in London and Cairo. Formerly the Egypt correspondent for the Guardian, his previous work has covered Gaza, Central Asia, Southern Africa, the US and the Indian subcontinent, and has been published in a wide range of newspapers and magazines around the world.

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