"Marikana: The wounds that will not heal", 20 Aug 2017

Silent but bitter rifts have deepened between the widows and relatives of the 46 victims of the Marikana tragedy...Aisha Fundi, widow of Hassan Fundi, a Lonmin protection services supervisor hacked to death allegedly by striking miners four days before the massacre, believes this is why tension and unease continue to thicken across the platinum belt. “Tension is far from over in Marikana and Lonmin. Union rivalry is not getting any better. But how do we end this when we can’t even bring the widows of the 2012 victims together? "We’re divided in grief as widows: those allegedly killed by striking workers and the bigger group killed by the police,” she said this week...Several members of both NUM and Amcu have been killed over the years on the platinum belt as union rivalry escalated after Amcu’s membership soared and the NUM was unseated as the majority union after the Marikana tragedy...Lonmin spokesperson Wendy Tladi said the mining company has always spoken of the 44 Marikana victims.“We have been commemorating August 2012 incidents as the week that changed our lives,” she said.

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