South Africa’s ‘freedom’ dripping in blood
Eighteen years since the end of Apartheid – and the dawn of ‘freedom and democracy’ - the brutal killings of 34 miners by the police in the Lonmin owned platinum mines at Marikana last Thursday has exposed the stark reality of the suffering and agony of the South African proletariat. This shooting is reminiscent of the harrowing Sharpeville massacre of sixty black protesters in 1960 by the then racist Apartheid regime.