I can understand when some Africans argue that March and March (M&M) leaders like Jacinta Ngobese-Zuma and Andile Somgxada, Sandile Dube, should never be forgiven, and must be punished, for the pains, loss and violence they inflict on other Black people.
But the African National Congress (ANC) and the government it controls, tolerated the M&M self-haters.
If M&M had directed its hate, violence, and destruction against South African White capitalist monopoly companies like Gold Fields, Sibanye-Stillwater and Valterra Plantinum would the ANC have tolerated it? Definitely “no”!
Under Jacob Zuma’s presidency, thirty-four striking miners were massacred on 16 August, 2012 in Marikana for demanding improved pay and conditions of working.
Also, in January 2025, with Ramaphosa as president, 246 illegal miners were rescued, while at least seventy-eight others were killed for mining in an abandoned gold mine in Stilfontein. This massacre occurred because police deliberately delayed rescue operations, sealed off exists, and cut off food, water and other essential supplies to the miners for more than a month.
