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Miners Shot Down: In August 2012, mine workers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mine began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the police used live...
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- Uhuru Digital
Nov 13, 2012 · The trailer for a feature length documentary, Miners Shut Down, where a filmmaker takes us into a mining province that quickly becomes explosive. In a matter...
Nearly 40 miners were shot dead by the South African police service at the Marikana Massacre in 2012 - the single most lethal use of force by South African security forces against civilians since 1960. Watch the trailer.
The film weaves together the central point of view of three strike leaders, Mambush, Tholakele and Mzoxolo, with compelling police footage, TV archive and interviews with lawyers representing the miners in the ensuing commission of inquiry into the massacre.
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- Rehad Desai
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days into the strike, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress it, killing 34 and injuring many more. The police insisted that they shot in self-defense.
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Rehad Desai’s beautifully filmed and uncompromising documentary, ‘Miners Shot Down’, is about so much more than the massacre by police of 34 striking workers at the Lonmin platinum mine at ...
