{"id":1297,"date":"2014-08-18T14:37:32","date_gmt":"2014-08-18T12:37:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/?p=1297"},"modified":"2014-08-18T14:37:32","modified_gmt":"2014-08-18T12:37:32","slug":"miners-shot-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/miners-shot-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Watching &#8220;Miners Shot Down&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Watching <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fPfz4MGIWtY\"><em>Miners Shot Down<\/em><\/a> and it&#8217;s giving me goosebumps. After spending 7 months in South Africa I feel I&#8217;ve only scratched at the surface, only started to understand this country in all it&#8217;s complexity. It is not black and white, it is much more intricate than that. The role of <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Cyril_Ramaphosa\" target=\"_blank\">Cyril Ramaphosa<\/a> in the Marikana story is but one example of this. It is strange to notice how much I feel for South Africa and hope the people can overcome the great challenges of inequality, poverty, violence, corruption. Even in this documentary about one of the darkest and saddest episodes in South Africa&#8217;s recent history, somehow I see glimpses of hope that South Africans can overcome these problems.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"584\" height=\"329\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fPfz4MGIWtY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.minersshotdown.co.za\/\">Miners Shot Down documentary website<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MinersShotDown\/\">Miners Shot Down Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Miners-Shot-Down\/436695929781206\">Miners Shot Down Facebook page<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/groups\/275097599265710\/\">Justice Now for Marikana Strikers Facebook group<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/bolekaja.wordpress.com\/2012\/09\/25\/mgcineni-mambush-noki\/\">Mgcineni \u201cMambush\u201d Noki, &#8220;The Man in the Green Blanket\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/abahlali.org\/node\/9143\/\">Short obituaries for the striking miners murdered at Marikana<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Watching Miners Shot Down and it&#8217;s giving me goosebumps. After spending 7 months in South Africa I feel I&#8217;ve only scratched at the surface, only started to understand this country in all it&#8217;s complexity. It is not black and white, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zonk.be\/miners-shot-down\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1300,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"Watching \"Miners Shot Down\" @MinersShotDown #Marikana #rememberMarikana","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[301,345],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/zonk.be\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Miners-Shot-Down-poster.jpg?fit=178%2C250&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p39BSQ-kV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1303,"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1297\/revisions\/1303"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zonk.be\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}