South Africa's economic apartheid lives on

KPFA Evening News, 09.02.2012

​South African born professor Sean Jacobs, who teaches at New York City's New School for Social Research, spoke to KPFA about the Marikana miners' strike and massacre. He said that the miners will be even worse off once it's over, unless there's an unlikely groundswell of support in South Africa. South Africans perceived apartheid as a legal system, he said, when it was really an economic system, which continues and will be more difficult to abolish.

South African platinum miners protesting the miserable conditions their families live in because the Lonmin Corporation refuses to pay them a wage equal to roughly $8/hr., which would be a 200% increase over what Lonmin pays now. Photo courtesy EPA. ​