2012 AD
Marikana miners’ strike and massacre
Trabajo y organización laboral · Minería · Violencia estatal · Salarios
The platinum-miners’ strike at Marikana ended in a police intervention that killed 34 people. This entry records wage conflict, precarity, and state violence without assuming that all miners shared one organisation or that one cause explains the events.
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- 2026-09-23
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