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July 31, 2017 In 17MarikanaMiners, Breaking News, Call to action, Media and Press By root

17 Miners Face Charges and Yet not a single police officer or politician has been investigated!

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...

July 25, 2017 In Media and Press, Napoleon Webster By root

Press Statement – Napoleon Webster Spends 200 Days Detained

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,...

April 24, 2017 In Media and Press, Napoleon Webster By root

Bishop Jo Seoka visits Napoleon Webster

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...

April 16, 2017 In Media and Press, Napoleon Webster By root

SERI join the struggle to #FreeNapoleonWebster

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...

March 24, 2017 In Media and Press, Napoleon Webster By root

PRESS STATEMENT ON ONGOING DETENTION AND PROSECUTION OF MARIKANA ACTIVISTS FALSELY ACCUSED OF MURDER

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...

February 6, 2017 In Call to action, Media and Press By root

Press Statement on Ongoing Detention and Prosecution of Marikana Activists

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...

January 25, 2017 In Call to action, Media and Press By root

Statement from Bishop Johannes Seoka ahead of the Lonmin AGM 2017

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....

October 11, 2016 In Breaking News, Media and Press By root

After Miners Shot Down, The Giant Must Fall

Rehad Desai, director of International Emmy award winning film, Miners Shot Down, will release follow up film, The Giant is Falling, at the end of this month at the Johannesburg Film Festival. The film is co-directed by first time director, Jabulani Mzozo. Desai made the decision...