The Marikana Support Campaign wishes all women a happy women’s day. We acknowledge the struggles of all women and especially those of Marikana, the widows, sisters and daughters of those killed at the massacre. We also wish to highlight the ongoing struggle for housing and...
5th ANNIVERSARY DEMONSTRATION AGAINST THE BRUTAL MARIKANA MASSACRE 1-2pm Picket Lonmin HQ, - 1-3 Mount Street, London W1K 3NB 4.30-7pm Remembrance Vigil - South Africa House, Trafalgar Square Bring yellow flowers FIVE YEARS ON - STILL NO JUSTICE! The police, the ANC government and Lonmin are guilty of murder! On 16th August 2012,...
Press Alert: R2K & MSC picket in solidarity with Marikana Strike Leaders Five years after the Marikana Massacre, 17 strike leaders, including Mzoxolo Magidiwana and Tholakela (Bele) Dlunga, who many know through Miners Shot Down, are facing serious public violence charges, linked to the strike. The National...
200 Days In Detention Without Trial – Free Napoleon Webster Wrongfully accused detainee, Napoleon Webster, finally has a court date to appeal the decision to deny him bail. Friday 10th August has been set as the date for his legal representatives, the Socio Economic Rights Institute,...
Last Thursday I visited an innocent man in prison – by Bishop Jo Seoka Monday 24 April 2017 For Immediate Release Last Thursday I paid a pastoral visit to Napoleon Webster and his co-detained in Rustenburg Jail. Napoleon moved to Marikana around a year ago and has been...
PRESS STATEMENT: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Issued by: Marikana Support Campaign and Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) Monday 10th April, 2017SERI join the struggle to #FreeNapoleonWebster The Marikana support campaign would like to announce that the Socio-Economic Rights Institute have agreed to join the struggle for the release of unjustly...
Attention: Editors and News Desks Friday 24 March 2017 Press statement on bail hearing of Marikana activists falsely accused of murder. The bail hearing for Napoleon Webster and eight other Marikana activists accused of murder, will take place on Tuesday 28th March 2017 at the Rustenburg Magistrates Court. This...
Attention: Editors and News Desks Monday 6 February 2017 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE On 8th December 2016, at 16.45 a tragic murder took place in Marikana. Between the 12 December 2016 and 6 January 2017, four community leaders, who work at Lonmin Marikana Mine, were arrested in connection with...
The Lonmin PLC AGM is one day away and we are preparing to remind them that they have yet to take any responsibility for the Marikana Massacre and any accountability for the dire living conditions the mine workers and their families are forced to endure....