The biggest union at South African platinum mines will restart a trust fund to support workers living in the Marikana area, where more than 34 people were killed in a single day by police almost four years ago. Workers continue to live in squalor in the area near Lonmin Plc’s operations, Bishop Jo Seoka, a past president of the South African Council of Churches who was a mediator at the time of the violence and strike, told reporters in Johannesburg Monday. The fund, which was first established in 2014 with R2-million ($149 000) from the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union, will now have more trustees and be known as the Marikana Massacre AMCU Trust Fund.
