MINERS SHOT DOWN Trailer from Icarus Films on Vimeo.
In August 2012, mineworkers in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines began a strike for better wages. Six days later, the police used live ammunition to brutally suppress the strike, killing 34 and injuring many more. What emerges is the country’s first post-colonial massacre. Miners Shot Down follows the strike from day one, showing the courageous but isolated fight waged by a group of low paid workers against the combined forces of a mining company, the ANC government and their allies in the National Union of Mineworkers.
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Director Rehad Desai will be present for a post-screening discussion.
Free admission. Donations will be accepted. Feel free to check out the trailer above.
