http://www.radio4all.net/program/62232Podcast for Program: Police Massacre of Striking Mineworkers in Marikana, South AfricaSat, 18 Aug 2012 15:36:08 +0000240http://www.radio4all.net/program/62232On August 16th, heavily armed police in Marikana, South Africa opened fire on striking mineworkers, reportedly killing over 34 workers in an action reminiscent of the worst days of the apartheid regime. The miners were demanding increases in pay and improved living and working conditions in a nation where poverty, unemployment and inequality persist 18 years after the end of the apartheid system of white rule. The governing African National Congress (ANC), which once represented the hope of equality for all South Africans obliquely condemned the violence but refrained from criticizing the police. With Patrick Bond, political economist and senior professor at the University of KwaZulu-Natal School of Development Studies in Durban, South Africa. Sounds Of Dissent radioSat, 18 Aug 2012 15:36:08 +0000