Section: Long Documentary
Country: South Africa
Production Year: 2014
Runtime: 86 Minutes
Director: Rehad Desai
Screenwriter: Rehad Desai
Cinematography: Nicolaas Hofmeyr
Editor: Menno Boerema
Music: Philip Miller
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Synopsis: In August 2012, mineworkers in 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. The documentary follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by the low paid workers against the combined forces of the mining company, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers
