"Marikana: A Promise Kept Through Tears Of Grief", 16 Aug 2017

They called him the man with the green blanket. In the days leading up to the Marikana massacre, Mgcineni ‘Mambush’ Noki was at the forefront, negotiating with the police. On August 16, it will be five years since Noki died in a hail of bullets. What happened to the families of those who died with Noki in Marikana at Lonmin’s South African platinum mine?...Mathunjwa, and his union members [Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union- Amcu], were back at...[Mambush]'s village to fulfil a promise made to the Marikana families...It took five years of struggle to raise the money to build the houses; Noki’s family was the first to benefit... Houses will help. It is all the Marikana families have for now. The families hope they will get justice too.