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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 stri...
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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...
The film. 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.
MINERS SHOT DOWN tells a different story, one that unfolds in real time over seven days, like a ticking time bomb. 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.
Miners Shot Down: Directed by Rehad Desai. 34 miners were killed in South Africa in 2012. A police cover-up was suspected.
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- Documentary, History, News
- Rehad Desai
- 2014-05-30
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 ...
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Watch on OVID. NR 1 hr 25 min Documentary. In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later the police used ...