BOOK REVIEW: German giant in the dock over its links to Marikana massacre
BASF was Lonmin’s biggest customer, yet for some time completely escaped media attention
Business as usual after MarikanaEdited by Jakob Krameritsch and Maren GrimmJacana The relationship between German chemical company BASF and Lonmin, and other transnational companies with business relationships that exploit workers, are explored in essays by 29 authors from Europe and SA.
Business as Usual After Marikana is an extension of the work of Plough Back the Fruits, a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) created by Jakob Krameritsch and Maren Grimm that collaborates with the widows of Marikana and has sought to hold BASF accountable for its complicity in the massacre of 2012. “We both initiated this campaign, because we saw how European media were covering the Marikana massacre. They followed, like the SA media, the view of the police saying that the police were acting in self-defence,” Krameritsch says. “This book is, in a way, destroying that perspective and saying that it was actually a massacre. For us it seemed important to have it in Europe in two languages [German...
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