Introduction / Mia Swart -- 1. History of the Marikana Massacre: a starting point / Peter Alexander -- 2. Money and mining in Marikana: microfinance, 'development finance' and corporate finance under conditions of super-exploitation / Patrick Bond -- 3. The Marikana Paradox: 'gaining the remuneration but losing the union' / Crispen Chinguno -- 4. The failure of the apartheid corporate model / William Gumede -- 5. The killing fields. Marikana and the justice deficit / Mia Swart -- 6. An ubuntu-based evaluation of the South African state's responses to Marikana: where's the reconciliation? / Thaddeus Metz -- 7. Ubuntu and reported moral values after the Marikana Massacre / Colin Chasi -- 8. Reporting Marikana: what went wrong, and has it changed South African journalism? / Ylva Rodny-Gumede -- 9. 'To mourn together as a nation: representation and erasure in post-Marikana political discourse / Meghan Tinsley -- 10. The making and political life of 'Miners shot down': an interview with Rehad Desai and Anita Khanna / Pier Paolo Frassinelli - Endnote. Lessons unlearned as Lonmin expires and Sibanye rises amid ongoing labour-community-feminist revolts / Patrick Bond.
Summary:
The Marikana massacre of 16 August 2012, during which 34 miners on strike were shot and killed by police at the Lonmin Mine in South Africa's North West province, remains a scar in the tissue of this newly democratic country. Several years after the massacre, and despite a lengthy commission of enquiry into the events around that date, there has still been no satisfactory political or legal accountability. Marikana Unresolved is a collection of chapters focused on the unsolved question of accountability for the massacre. It provides a cross-disciplinary account of what really happened, how the event has affected the current South African socio-political landscape and how it has changed public discourse on the mining sector, the labour market and national reconciliation. Written by highly regarded scholars and practitioners, it looks at the massacre from the perspectives of law, philosophy, media, politics, economics and public governance.
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