Screening and Q&A: Miners Shot Down and Fallism in Contemporary South Africa

In August 2012, mineworkers in Marikana, one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines, 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 follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company, Lonmin, the ANC government, and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers. What emerges is collusion at the top, spiraling violence, and the country’s first post-apartheid massacre.

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