Miners Shot Down

Miners Shot Down

Tue 04 Nov 2014
17:30-19:05 (95 minutes)
_ Price: £5
_ Age Group: 16+
_ Venue: Red Lecture Theatre
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Miners Shot Down
Rehad Desai | South Africa 2014

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.