Murder at Small Koppie: The Real Story of South Africa’s Marikana Massacre
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| Rating | : | 4.71 (661 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1611862760 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 267 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-07-04 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
But no summary of what happened at Marikana can do justice to Marinovich’s narrative, nor to the miners, police and security guards who lost their lives while authorities created ‘plausible deniability’ for themselves.” —Anthony Egan, Daily Maverick . “The autopsy reports of bullet wound trajectories suggest nothing less than extrajudicial executions, sinister echoes of apartheid-era death squad activities
Here, Pulitzer Prize–winner Greg Marinovich focuses on the violence that took place at Small Koppie, a collection of boulders where a second massacre took place off-camera and in cold blood. An award-winning investigation that has been called the most important piece of journalism in post-apartheid South Africa, Murder at Small Koppie delves into the truth behind the massacre that killed thirty-four coal miners and wounded seventy-eight more in August of 2012 at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa’s North West province. By taking readers into the mines, the shacks where the miners live, and the boardroom, Marinovich puts names, faces, and stories to Marikana’s victims and perpetrators. Combining his own meticulous research, eyewitness accounts, and the findings of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry, Marinovich has crafted a vivid account of the tragedy and the events leading up to it. He addresses the big questions that any nation must ask when justice and equality are subverted by conflicts around class, race, money, and power, as well as the subsequent denial and finger-pointing that characterized the response