Thank you to Andy Higginbottom for this timely and informative report on the current state of the mining industry in South Africa. To learn more about the activities planned for the 11th anniversary of the Marikana Massacre, see our post here. This study ‘follows the...
16 August 2023 will mark the 11th anniversary of the Marikana Massacre, in which 34 striking mine workers were shot dead in South Africa. You can read more about the events surrounding the strike in this piece by Saleh Mamon, written on the 10th anniversary of the...
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...
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...
Bilingual LMN Book Club Workshop on Anglo American and the Rise of Modern South Africa byDuncan Innes (1984) Heinemann Español debajo This book provides a detailed study of Anglo American corporation until the early 1980s, showing it was steeped in extreme racial...
