STANDING on top of Wonderkop hill‚ on the boulders of death‚ looking down at Nkaneng informal settlement‚ all that greets the eye is a plain sprawling with shacks.This vantage point marks the spot where some of the 34 miners killed by police in what has become known as the worst police action since Sharpeville perished in a hail of bullets on August 16‚ 2012.The miners‚ many of them living in this Marikana slum for years‚ took a stand on this koppie to fight for a basic salary of R12‚500. This is where children play barefoot in muddy puddles in the dirt road as jobless youths compete for shade with goats‚ with some brewing sorghum beer to get by — their hopes of a better life than back home in the Eastern Cape dashed.READ THIS: Politics are shifting, but ANC is still a powerful forceThe only sign of electricity is power lines hovering over the settlement taking electricity to the smelter. In parts of the settlement‚ water is a luxury.In one of the maze of shacks‚ Bab’Ndlela‚ not his...
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