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ANA reports that the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) will on Wednesday host the inaugural memorial lecture for slain Marikana mineworkers.
The memorial lecture will be held at the Sandton Convention Centre from 8.30am to noon and Western Cape High Court Judge President John Hlophe is set to deliver the lecture. The lecture is part of activities lined up ahead of the sixth anniversary on Thursday of the Marikana massacre near Rustenburg, North West. Thirty-four mineworkers were killed on 16 August 2012 at Lonmin’s Marikana operations when the police shot them at a two koppies near Nkaneng informal settlement. Seventy-eight were injured and hundreds arrested. The Marikana Support Campaign, Right2Know Campaign and Socio Economic Rights Institute (Seri) have also lined up activities leading to 16 August, including the release of an Institute for Security Studies (ISS) report that details what happened at the so-called small koppie, or Scene 2.
- Read this report in full at The Citizen