In an hour long documentary, Peter Hain, Labour MP for Neath and a prominent anti-apartheid activist in his youth, returned to his native South Africa to try to discover why the ANC government is losing the support of the black working class and how it is now perceived after presiding over last year's Marikana massacre where 34 Lonmin mineworkers were killed by the police.
In a surprisingly devastating critique of the ANC's failure to ensure 'a better life for all, especially the poor' after 18 years in government, Hain looked visibly shocked and depressed when told during his visit by several traditional ANC supporters that after Marikana they would never vote for the ANC again!
Hain confirmed what the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI section in South Africa) reported immediately after the massacre, that 'Marikana has changed South Africa for ever'.
DSM members didn't have to wait several months or hear the evidence at Zuma's showpiece Commission of Inquiry to find out what really happened because they were told immediately after the massacre by those strikers who survived.
Marikana was pre-meditated murder, consciously planned and with the collusion of Lonmin, the police and the government at the highest levels. Full story...
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In a surprisingly devastating critique of the ANC's failure to ensure 'a better life for all, especially the poor' after 18 years in government, Hain looked visibly shocked and depressed when told during his visit by several traditional ANC supporters that after Marikana they would never vote for the ANC again!
Hain confirmed what the Democratic Socialist Movement (CWI section in South Africa) reported immediately after the massacre, that 'Marikana has changed South Africa for ever'.
DSM members didn't have to wait several months or hear the evidence at Zuma's showpiece Commission of Inquiry to find out what really happened because they were told immediately after the massacre by those strikers who survived.
Marikana was pre-meditated murder, consciously planned and with the collusion of Lonmin, the police and the government at the highest levels. Full story...
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