South Africa: This Women’s Month, the state must honour the plight of the women of Marikana

Each year on 9 August, the South African government commemorates Women’s Day, honouring the Women’s March of 1956. Last week’s National Women’s Day was no different. In the same month, for nearly 12 years, we have marked the anniversary of the Marikana massacre that to this day significantly affects the women and children of the deceased and injured mineworkers.

The state cannot truly commemorate Women’s Day while the unjust principles against which the women protested in 1956…