The faces of Marikana: Part V

Mafolisi Mabiya

Mafolisi has two sisters, one of whom travelled from Cape Town to mourn her brother at the village near the Mbhashe River in the Eastern Cape. He had spent a long month away earning a living at Lonmin mine near Rustenburg, where he was employed as a general production hand. A father of five, who had toiled on the mines around Rustenburg since 1990, he had been finalising plans to resign and follow his dream – starting a transport company at home in the Gauteng town of Vanderbijlpark.

The security guard at Lonmin’s Karee mine had been called in by his bosses to help as the uprising at the mine began, his weepingAccording to reports at the time, Matlhomola was burned to death alongside his colleague Hassan Fundi that Saturday. Mine officials only discovered their bodies the following Monday.“I told him not to go but he insisted on going,” his mother said.“He was loyal. He was supposed to come and see me, as he always did when he was off.

The pain is unbearable. He leaves behind three brothers and a sister, who depended on him. He has a two-year daughter, Tsenolo.” “Even when I told him I’m worried about their strike, he said that there’s nothing to worry about and that I should send him a callback at 7pm that evening so that he can give me a progress report,” she said.

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