by Niren Tolsi, Mail & Guardian
The supplement to the M&G on the anniversary of the Marikana Massacre is online at: http://marikana.mg.co.za/
What happened during the fatal miners’ strike in Marikana in
August 2012 did not end there. Thirty-four people were killed in the massacre
on August 16. Those miners who survived and were arrested say they were
tortured and brutalised by the police. People also died, violently, before and
after that date.
Families were left without husbands, brothers, sons and
fathers. And a daughter and mother: Pauline Masuhlo was an ANC councillor in the
Madibeng municipality and a campaigner for better social conditions in the
squalid informal settlements around Lonmin’s shafts. She died from injuries
visited upon her during a government clampdown of Nkaneng informal settlement
on September 15.
