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De bronnen van Clio: september 2013
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De bronnen van Clio. Dit blog begeeft zich in de schemerzone van geschiedenis en archivistiek. Zoeken in deze blog. Maandag 30 september 2013. Is de shortlist Libris Geschiedenis Prijs te voorspelbaar? Vorig weekeinde werden de nominaties voor de Libris Prijs Geschiedenis Prijs 2013 bekendgemaakt. De lijst bevat weinig verrassingen. Hoe kan dat toch met zoveel verschillende boeken op de leestafel? De prijs bedraagt een respectabele 20.000 euro. Dit is inmiddels zo voorspelbaar geworden dat men in dat opz...
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Writer's Bloc: Marikana: North West cop sobs during cross examination
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Thursday, April 24, 2014. Marikana: North West cop sobs during cross examination. A top cop put his head on his arms and sobbed in the middle of his cross-examination at the Farlam commission of inquiry. On Thursday, saying he was "heartbroken". I'm not angry, I'm just very heartbroken," Lieutenant Colonel Omphile Joseph Merafe told the commission, before Judge Ian Farlam granted an early adjournment. I wasn't happy, as it is I am not happy, I haven't claimed to be happy at any stage," Merafe replied.
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Writer's Bloc: Deep flaws in police unti exposed at Marikana inquiry
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Sunday, April 13, 2014. Deep flaws in police unti exposed at Marikana inquiry. The article as it appeared in Friday's Mail and Guardian. Public order policing came under the spotlight this week at the Marikana commission of inquiry. As the cross-examination of Lieutenant Colonel Salmon Vermaak continued. The North West air wing chief listed inadequate training and poor information management as some of the main failures of the public order police (POP) unit, whose mandate is to provide crowd control.
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Writer's Bloc: Violent strikes and how to change them
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Sunday, April 20, 2014. Violent strikes and how to change them. Violence works. It has worked in the past and it will work today." This is the rationale of workers during many strikes, according to Crispen Chinguno from the University of Witwatersrand's Society, Work and Development Institute. In his presentation on Wednesday titled "Explaining violence in strikes", Chinguno unpacked the basis of worker violence. He was speaking at the third seminar held by the Marikana commission of inquiry. The signifi...
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Writer's Bloc: Human beings died that day
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Thursday, April 10, 2014. Human beings died that day. Death Death. Death. Lots of death. The past two weeks have revolved around death. First in the form of the play, “ A human being died that night. 8221; and this week in the form of the Marikana Commission. Vermaak’s response was that he sent the information through to his superiors and that it was in their hands to make a call. Vermaak also said that if he was in charge he would have stopped the operation after seeing the bodies on the ground. Even th...
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Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights | Nick Davies | World news | The Guardian
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Skip to main content. Marikana massacre: the untold story of the strike leader who died for workers’ rights. In 2012 a strike at the Marikana platinum mine in South Africa ended when police opened fire, killing 34 miners. Investigations have revealed one rebel leader died trying to broker a peaceful solution. Nick Davies uncovers his story. Mgcineni Noki, with the striking platinum miners on 16 August 2012. Photograph: Leon Sadiki/Getty Images. Tuesday 19 May 2015 01.00 EDT. On the Friday night, he told ...
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Writer's Bloc: April 2014
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Thursday, April 24, 2014. Marikana: North West cop sobs during cross examination. A top cop put his head on his arms and sobbed in the middle of his cross-examination at the Farlam commission of inquiry. On Thursday, saying he was "heartbroken". I'm not angry, I'm just very heartbroken," Lieutenant Colonel Omphile Joseph Merafe told the commission, before Judge Ian Farlam granted an early adjournment. I wasn't happy, as it is I am not happy, I haven't claimed to be happy at any stage," Merafe replied.
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Marikana memory fades for students – Samantha Camara
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Writer's Bloc: Marikana cops 'not happy' with command
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Sunday, April 20, 2014. Marikana cops 'not happy' with command. The police at Marikana were sufficiently trained, but were dissatisfied with the commander of the operation, the Farlam commission. Heard this week. Major General William Mpembe, the provincial deputy police commissioner, was that commander. Three days later, the Marikana massacre occurred, in which police mowed down 34 of the striking mineworkers. In his letter, Vermaak said: "Members allow illegal actions at certain areas and the next day,...
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