Editing History of South Africa (section)

===Labour relations===
[[File:Church on Green Market Square Marikana.JPG|thumb|Church on [[Greenmarket Square]] in Cape Town, South Africa with a banner memorialising the Marikana massacre]] Migrant labour remained a fundamental aspect of the South African mining industry, which employed half a million mostly black miners. Labour unrest in the industry resulted in a massacre in mid-August 2012, when anti-riot police shot dead 34 striking miners and wounded many more in what is known as the [[Marikana massacre]]. The incident was widely criticised by the public, civil society organisations and religious leaders.<ref>{{cite news|last=Saks|first=David|title=Rabbi Goldstein, as part of NIFC-SA, reaches out to Lonmin victims|url=http://www.sajewishreport.co.za/pdf/latest_issue/NJWED00323.pdf|access-date=26 August 2012|newspaper=SA Jewish Report|date=24 August 2012|page=3}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref> The migrant labour system was identified as a primary cause of the unrest. Multi-national mining corporations including [[Anglo-American Corporation]], [[Lonmin]], and [[Anglo Platinum]], were accused of failing to address the enduring legacies of apartheid.<ref>''Financial Times'',[http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e0b9bee0-b0e4-11e3-bbd4-00144feab7de.html#axzz3Ze1AyNHG "South African mining stuck in the past"]. Accessed 9 May 2015</ref>