Miners Shot Down

The gripping documentary Miners Shot Down explores a 2012 “wildcat” strike in one of South Africa’s biggest platinum mines. Six days into the spontaneous employee action, the police used live ammunition to suppress it, killing dozens and injuring even more. The tragedy portrayed in the film resonates beyond this single incident to question the lingering social and economic issues in South Africa’s nascent democracy. The film was named Best Documentary at FESPACO (Panafrican Film and Television Festival of Ouagadougou). (86 mins., HD video)

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Departments of African American and African Studies, Comparative Studies, and the Center for African Studies.