I titled this post "Not Another Marikana Post" because I believe that's probably the first thought your thinking as you read through it. Well please bare with me. My dad is a nursing Manager at Lonmin in Marikana. I went home this weekend and just chilled as usual with the old man, and we talked about random father and son stuff. He spoke not as the nursing manager from Marikana but as a father speaking to his son about how the situation affected him, and we where just talking. I found it interesting to hear what he had to say about the media. Phrases like "I've learned not to like the media" This made me think because, as a PR P, My best friend is the media. I need to build relationships with the media, it's my job description
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| Striking mine workers making sure their actions do the talking |
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| Mine-worker sympathizers letting the voices be heard |
Two Sides To Every Story
What he didn't like was the way the media had covered the story. The people that had died where people he knew, people he greeted on a daily basis. An individual in particular who would take pictures around the mine was killed by being in the wrong place at the wrong time from the way he spoke he knew the person personally(I feel it's best not to mention names) it's a tragedy that things got violent it's disappointing that the very same nurses that tried to help the wounded got bad publicity but as the saying goes "there's your side of the story my side of the story and then there's the truth." I'm quite sure many other people either agreed or disagreed with the way the Marikana Massacre was framed named and a whole organization shamed but
