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Movie review – Miners Shot Down: Devastating cinema
City Press
“Rehad Desai’s documentary brings the miners to the fore with a terrible poignancy and an equal measure of urgency.”
MINERS SHOT DOWN: BLOOD ON WHOSE HANDS?
Popular Resistance.Org
“Yet in spite of this, Miners Shot Down is a powerful film, combining moral outrage with forceful reportage.”
Miners Shot Down: Documentary about the 2012 Marikana massacre
World Socialist Web
“Miners Shot Down carefully reconstructs the series of events by which a protest by thousands of miners demanding a living wage at the Lonmin platinum mine ended in a bloodbath after seven days.”
Miners Shot Down pummels South African authorities
Straight
“The result is an intimate level of access, where Desai was collecting and reviewing videos recorded by police, security, and other sources even before some of that footage found its way to an official Commission of Inquiry”
Miners Shot Down – Must See TV Viewing
News Ghana
“Taking the Marikana shootings head on ? Miners Shot Down ? is essential viewing for anyone concerned about preserving the basic democratic rights of citizens whether it is in South Africa, across the African continent or beyond.”
Weeping for Reeva, ignoring Marikana
Spiked
“The Western pontificating about the tragedy of Pistorius has been nothing more than self-aggrandisement, an exercise in egotistical moral chest-thumping devoid of any substance or integrity”
Namibia: Film, Miners Shot Down, Goes to Erongo
All Africa
“The film is a blistering criticism of the government’s deadly response to striking miners in Marikana in 2012″