“The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting,” wrote Milan Kundera, author of the celebrated novel The Unbearable Lightness of Being who died last month.
The 11th anniversary of the Marikana massacre on August 16 will sadly probably receive less public attention than last year’s 10th commemoration, but there is arguably also the danger of its history being rewritten and its memory distorted.
Sibanye Stillwater, the company that bought Lonmin, is inviting people to attend the 4th Annual Marikana Commemoration Lecture on