Search Results for Marikana massacre

... the state-sanctioned massacre of striking mineworkers at Marikana in 2012 as a significant marker for this current phase of protests, the essay explores some of the subsequent political shifts, including challenges to the hegemony of the ruling political party—the African National Congress—and to the trade...

...Noor Nieftagodien This article critically examines the first year in the existence of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF), the newest left-wing party in South Africa. It argues that the EFF is a product of the post-Marikana massacre political landscape, characterized by serious questioning...

... of Chicago Press . Cooper Frederick . 1983 . Struggle for the City: Migrant Labor, Capital, and the State in Urban Africa . Beverly Hills : Sage . Davies Nick . 2015 . “Marikana Massacre: The Untold Story of the Strike Leader Who Died for Workers' Rights.” Guardian , May 19...

... the battle between Mbeki and his deputy-turned-rival, Jacob Zuma. The scars left by this battle went deeper than the formation of COPE, leaving the party polarized at the same time as Zuma’s own camp was falling apart. After the fallout from the Marikana massacre threatened to turn the ever...

... at will (Rajak 2011). This was captured in the most visceral way in the aftermath of the Marikana massacre of thirty-four striking rock drillers on the platinum belt in 2012 and the wave of strikes that paralyzed the industry following the massacre. In the second year of the strikes, in a bid to get...

... . Liberalism: A Counter-History . London : Verso . Maart Rozena . 2014 . “Philosophy Born of Massacres: Marikana, the Theatre of Cruelty; The Killing of the ‘Kaffir.’” Acta Academica 46 , no. 4 : 1 – 28 . Mantena Karuna . 2010 . Alibis of Empire: Henry Maine and the Ends...

... the August 2012 Marikana massacre—when South Afri- can police killed thirty-four (and injured seventy) striking miners at the Marikana platinum mine—and the subsequent strike wave, there has been The South Atlantic Quarterly 114:2, April 2015 doi 10.1215/00382876-2862831  © 2015 Duke University...