The cover of 'Marikana: A people's history' (Supplied)
The families of those who died at Marikana remember their last conversations vividly. In this excerpt from 'Marikana: A People’s History', Julian Brown writes about the ordinary and everyday lives that were shattered by the massacre ten years ago on 16 August 2012.
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