Platinum Strike: Who Oppresses Whom?
“Some say they are fighting for economic freedom – who is oppressing them economically? Who do they want economic freedom from?” South African President Jacob Zuma uttered these words in October last year. He was addressing a crowd of 500 people at the Mdantsane’s Nonzwakazi Primary School in the Eastern Cape. Naturally, his disingenuous diss was […]
Police Allegedly Misled Marikana Commission
The South African police have apparently been doctoring information that it has presented to the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into the deaths of 44 people – including 34 miners killed by police at a massacre on August 16 2012– during a strike at Lonmin’s Marikana mine last year. The Con has confirmed with sources […]