“They came there as workers”: Voice, dialogicality and identity construction in textual representations of the 2012 Marikana miner’s strike

In August and September 2012, a mineworkers’ strike took place at a mine operated by Lonmin, a British producer of platinum metals, in the Marikana area of the South African platinum belt. The strike received international attention after over 70 Lonmin employees were injured, 34 of whom suffered fa...

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Main Author: Bernard, Taryn
Format: Article
Language:Afrikaans
Published: Stellenbosch University 2016-12-01
Series:Stellenbosch Papers in Linguistics Plus
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Online Access:https://spilplus.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/662