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Miners shot down /

"In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines, [in Marikana, near Rustenburg,] began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Miners Shot Down shows...

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Other Authors: Desai, Rehad (Producer, Screenwriter, Director), Khanna, Anita (Producer, Screenwriter), Miller, Philip, 1964- (composer (expression)), Hofmeyr, Nicolaas (Photographer), Kovel, Jonathan (Photographer)
Format: Video DVD
Language:English
Xhosa
Zulu
Language Notes:English, Xhosa, Zulu with subtitles in English.
Published: Brooklyn NY : Icarus Films, 2014.
Subjects:
Strikes and lockouts > Miners > South Africa > Rustenburg.
Miners > South Africa > Rustenburg > Interviews.
Police shootings > South Africa > Rustenburg.
Massacres > South Africa > Rustenburg.
Marikana (Rustenburg, South Africa)
Massacres.
Miners.
Police shootings.
Strikes and lockouts > Miners.
South Africa > Rustenburg.
Nonfiction films.
Feature films.
Foreign films.
Motion pictures, South African.
Documentary films.
Interviews.
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Summary:"In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa's biggest platinum mines, [in Marikana, near Rustenburg,] began a wildcat strike for better wages. Six days later, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. Miners Shot Down shows the courageous fight waged by a group of low-paid workers against the combined forces of mining company Lonmin, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers. What emerges is collusion at the top, spiralling violence and the country's first post-apartheid massacre"--Container.
Item Description:This disc is a recorded DVD and may not play on all DVD players or drives.
Supported by Just Films Ford Foundation, Bertha Foundation Multi Agency Grant Initiative, World View Bureau for investigative Journalism.
DVD release of the 2014 documentary.
Physical Description:1 videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Format:DVD-R.
Production Credits:Photography, Nicolaas Hofmeyr, Shadley Lombard, Jonathan Kovel ; sound, President Kapa ; editors, Menno Boerema, Ruben van der Hammen, Kerryn Assaizky, Megan Gill, Steen Johannessen ; original music, Philip Miller.