The 2012 Lonmin strike presents an important case for social scientists to reflect on South Africa’s violent and turbulent industrial relations history. The authors of Marikana, A View From the Mountain and a Case to Answer attempt to paint a vivid picture of the events that unfolded through the use of detailed maps, pictures, and extracts from interviews with mineworkers, a mineworker’s wife and the Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) president Joseph Mathunjwa.