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07/05/2016 GMT

Miners Shot Down

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Miners Shot Down tells the story of the Marikana mineworkers who striked in August 2012.

In August 2012, workers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines began striking for better wages. Six days later, police used live ammunition to brutally stop the strike.

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 live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Using the point of view of the Marikana miners, Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers. What emerges is collusion at the top, spiralling violence and the country's first post-apartheid massacre. South Africa will never be the same again.

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