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03759aam a2200469 i 4500 001 5C080D3CDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220526010039 008 211103t20222022enk b 001 0 eng d 020 $a 1847012841 020 $a 9781847012845 035 $a (OCoLC)1285694379 040 $a UKMGB $b eng $e rda $c UKMGB $d YDX $d ERASA $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d YDX $d OCLCO $d NYP $d OCLCO $d SILO 043 $a f-sa--- 050 4 $a HV6535.S63 $b M37 2022 100 1 $a Brown, Julian $c (Of University of the Witwatersrand), $e author. $1 https://isni.org/isni/0000000423162774 245 10 $a Marikana : $b a people's history / $c Julian Brown. 264 1 $a Suffolk : $b James Currey, $c 2022. 300 $a xi, 268 pages ; $c 25 cm 500 $a "James Currey titles on South & Southern Africa" 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 8 $a In August 2012 the South African police - at the encouragement of mining capital, and with the support of the political state - intervened to end a week-long strike at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana, in South Africa's NorthWest Province. On the afternoon of Thursday, 16 August, they police shot and killed 34 men. Hundreds more were injured, some shot as they fled. None posed a threat to any police officer. Recognised by many as an event of international significance in stories of global politics and labour relations, the perspectives of the miners has however been almost missing from published accounts. This book, for the first time, brings into focus the mens' lives - and deaths - telling the stories of those who embarked on the strike, those who were killed, and of the family members who have survived to fight for the memories of their loved ones. It places the strike in the context of South Africa's long history of racial and economic exclusion, explaining how the miners came to be in Marikana, how their lives were ordinarily lived, and the substance of their complaints. It shows how the strike developed from an initial gathering into a mass movement of more than 3,000 workers. It discusses the violence of the strike and explores the political context of the state's response, and the eagerness of the police to collaborate in suppressing the strike.Recounting the events of the massacre in unprecedented detail, the book sets out how each miner died and everything we know about the police operation. Finally, Brown traces the aftermath: the attempts of the families of the deceased to identify and bury their dead, and then the state's attempts to spin a narrative that placed all blame on the miners; the subsequent Commission of Inquiry - and its failure to resolve any real issues; and the solidarity politics that have emerged since. 610 20 $a Lonmin (Firm) 650 0 $a Massacres $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Police brutality $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Police shootings $z South Africa. 650 0 $a Strikes and lockouts $x Miners $z South Africa. 651 0 $a Marikana Mine (South Africa) $x History. 651 0 $a South Africa $x Politics and government $y 1994- 650 6 $a Greves et lock-out $x Mineurs $z Afrique du Sud. 650 6 $a Massacres $z Afrique du Sud. 650 6 $a Brutalites policieres $z Afrique du Sud. 650 6 $a Police $x Usage des armes $z Afrique du Sud. 650 7 $a Massacres. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01011476 650 7 $a Politics and government. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919741 650 7 $a Strikes and lockouts $x Miners. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01135156 651 7 $a South Africa. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204616 648 7 $a Since 1994 $2 fast 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9781800102828 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20230919012939.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=5C080D3CDCB911EC8436229451ECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search