was written by Felix Dalangamandla, Thanduxolo Jika, Lucas Ledwaba, Sebabatso Mosamo, Athandiwe Saba and Leon Sadiki. It details the events surround the massacre, which took place on August 16 2012. This is an extract from Chapter 3.Police had made it clear that Thursday August 16 was D-day. They were ending the mine workers’ vigil that had for the past week, attracted throngs of local and international media to the previously unknown township of Wonderkop at Marikana.
Mathunjwa, frustrated at being shunted from one person to another in his efforts to broker peace that day, said Mbombo had told him ‘she was now in charge of the operation and said this thing must end today because it is costing the state a lot of money.’ Miners gathered at the koppie in Nkaneng behind Lonmin mine outside Rustenburg in 2013 to commemorate the fateful day of August 16 2012 when 34 miners were shot and killed by police in what is now called the Marikana massacre. Picture: Felix Dlangamandla/Foto24
The public-order policing unit is trained in crowd control, while the tactical reaction unit, special task force and the national intervention unit specialise in hostage release, counterterrorism, and foiling cash-in-transit heists and bank robberies. The public-order policing unit is trained in crowd control, while the tactical reaction unit, special task force and the national intervention unit specialise in hostage release, counterterrorism, and foiling cash-in-transit heists and bank robberies.
‘From the base we would be escorted to a holding point near the koppie, where we would be transferred to armoured vehicles and from there each union would go to the koppie and address the workers. NUM went first,’ Mathunjwa said.There was a flurry of activity as he arrived, journalists trying to get closer to the action and the men from the STF and the NIU, armed and ready, forming a boundary between the workers and the media contingent and the crowd.
He began speaking through a loudhailer from inside the police Nyala, but the men broke into song again, cluttering their weapons to the beat of the song that called for the killing of NUM and Zokwana himself. Zokwana made a hasty retreat, escorted back to the JOC by the armed police while his opponent, Mathunjwa, made the trip to the koppie, also under heavy police escort.
After his two comrades, Nkalitshana and XXX had offered their greetings through a loudhailer and introduced Mathunjwa, it was his turn now at trying to convince the men to lay down their arms and disperse.‘Amaaaaandla!’ he roared through the loudhailer from inside the police Nyala.
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