23 August – Resisting Mining Book Club Extra: The Bermuda Connection
Lonmin was the corporation responsible for urging the South African state to carry out the massacre of 34 striking mineworkers on 16 August 2012. Lonmin refused to negotiate with its workers for a living wage, and instead called on the police who shot them down in...
16 August – Eleventh Anniversary of the Marikana Massacre
On 16 August 2012 the South African police shot dead 34 platinum miners on strike for a living wage from their employer Lonmin, a descendant of notorious UK company Lonrho, founded during Cecil Rhodes’ brutal white settler colonial occupation of southern Africa. Join...
The Troubling Past of Anglo American: South African Apartheid Profiteers
This is the first in a short series of blogs on the history and legacy of Anglo American around the world by LMN’s Communications Coordinator, Saul Jones Most of us are familiar with the basic outline of the story of South African apartheid – from the late...
19 July – Resisting Mining Book Club: The Heart of Our Earth
Wednesday 19 July, 18:00 – 20:00 At our next Resisting Mining Book Club event, we’ll be talking to Tom Gatehouse about his book The Heart of Our Earth: Community resistance to mining in Latin America. This book tells the story of the unprecedented...