The struggle for environmental justice in South Africa.
Directed by Gillian Schutte & Sipho Singiswa
Produced by hands-on Productions.
The struggle for environmental justice in South Africa.
Directed by Gillian Schutte & Sipho Singiswa
Produced by hands-on Productions.
Last week saw the memorial of the Marikana Massacre unfold on national television, namely on eNCA, which rolled out an entire day dedicated to the miners that died in the massacre.
On the surface this appeared to be a noble cause that could be celebrated as the mainstream finally seeing things from the working-class perspective.
A year after the Marikana massacre, miners’ lawyer Jim Nichol looks at the facts revealed by the inquiry.
By Jim Nichol · 19 Aug 2013
“Africa your silence is loud! Speak out against patriarchy, homophobia and transphobia.”
Poststructuralist psychoanalyst, Jacques Lacan, has argued that humans distinguish themselves from animals in the instant during which shit becomes something shameful.
Article by Gillian Schutte.
When the mass strike action hit the Rustenberg Platinum belt in August 2012 mainstream South African public was quick to write off the striking miners as an unruly bunch who were ungrateful for their employment and unworthy of the social development that the mining companies were investing into their communities.