By Richard Solly, Co-ordinator, London Mining Network On 16 August, 2012, South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners at Lonmin’s Marikana platinum mine. Lonmin is a British company – successor to Lonrho, which British Conservative Prime Minister...
A short film by Zoe Broughton from last week’s Lonmin AGM protest and commemoration for the 34 South African miners killed at the British company’s Marikana platinum mine in South Africa in August 2012.
There was extensive media coverage of this year’s Lonmin AGM. Check out the following: AfricaNews BBC World Service Church Times Daily Mail Guardian Independent Catholic News Media Diversified Neues Deutschland New Internationalist Reuters Telegraph The Citizen...
Since the police killings of 34 striking mine workers in August 2012, British-South African mining firm, Lonmin, has failed to live up to many of its social commitments to the workers and the survivors of the deadly attack. Join South African Bishop Johannes Seoka...
Amnesty International has just released a new report, South Africa: Smoke and mirrors: Lonmin’s failure to address housing conditions at Marikana. The report deals with Lonmin’s failure to address the appalling housing conditions which helped fuel the dispute...
