Abstract
On 16 August 2012, police shot dead 34 miners at Marikana, South Africa. This brutal event recalled memories of the 1960 Sharpeville massacre during the apartheid regime. The ill-trained, poorly-led and remilitarized South African Police Service (SAPS) resorted to lethal force to disarm and disperse the miners in order to appease pressures from the government, owners and a rival union to end the ‘wildcat’ strike. Lack of leadership, faulty equipment and inadequate communication lines added to police problems. The Marikana massacre has tarnished the reputation of SAPS which requires significant cultural and attitudinal reform to transform its public order operations. The Farlam Commission, operating for two years but itself under challenge, is investigating the accountability of protagonists in the massacre, especially the police role.
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