Miners shot down / Uhuru Productions presents, in coproduction with IKON Netherlands, DRTV Denmark, in association with National Film & Video Foundation, SVT Sweden, NRK Norway, RTS Switzerland, YLE Finland & NHK Japan ; director, Rehad Desai ; producers & script, Anita Khanna, Rehad Desai.
Publisher:
Uhuru Productions,
Copyright Date:
2014
Description:
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
"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. Miners Shot Down shows the courageous fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of 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"--Container.
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