Miners Shot Down

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Release date: 25 September 2014

Running time: 86 minutes

For decades, South African workers have struggled to earn a living wage digging platinum for the British company Lonmin. Dismayed that their own union was in bed with the company, in August 2012 miners began a wildcat strike. Six days later, determined to end the strike whatever the cost, police murdered 34 miners, injuring many more. Director Rehad Desai takes us through the tense days leading up to the atrocity, dissecting how apartheid heroes had become members of the establishment willing to gun down their fellow man. Through an abundance of footage filmed by police and the mining company itself, we disturbingly find ourselves placed in the viewpoint of the aggressors - shooting down unarmed protestors as they try to flee the scene. As an investigation rumbles on, attended by anguished families, police remain unrepentant, their chief praising their efforts as "responsible policing" in a twisted mockery of a functional post-apartheid South Africa. Carol Nahra

Original title: Miners Shot Down

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Production: 2014

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