Political parties in South Africa used the 12th anniversary of the Marikana massacre to reflect on the tragedy which left 34 striking miners dead in the North West. On 16 August 2012, 34 striking miners died when police opened fire at the Lonmin platinum mine, near Rustenburg, North West and to date no compensation has been granted for the those who were fataly wounded and their families of those who passed. Kim Heller, a political analyst and author of ‘No White Lies: Black Politics and White Power in South Africa’, wrote an interesting article titled “The Marikana Massacre 12 years later remains a breach of South Africa’s democracy”.