Managing public feeling: Temporality, mourning and the Marikana Massacre in Rehad Desai’s Miners Shot Down

This paper analyses Rehad Desai’s documentary film Miners Shot Down in an effort to chart some of the ways in which public feelings were managed in both the run-up to and the aftermath of the Marikana massacre in South Africa. I suggest that the affective and temporal dimensions of current attempts at containing perceived threats to financial and political stability on the part of South Africa’s business and political elite are key to …