CAS Events: Miners Shot Down post-screening discussion (5 Feb 2015)

Miners Shot Down looks at the Marikana miners perspective on what happened in August 2012. Six days after the mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a wildcat strike for better wages,the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. After the screening of this compelling documentary, Ben Fine (SOAS) chaired and interesting discussion with the audience and James Nichol - the lawyer representing the mine workers' families at the Farlam Commission of Inquiry.