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In 2012 photographer Alon Skuy was alerted to a miners’ strike in Marikana in North West province. He headed to the town, little knowing the tragedy that would unfold in the next few days would be the lowest point in SA’s democratic history.

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Scary thing is, it wasn’t the lowest point in our democracy

Capitalists and their stooge Ramaphosa.

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