1. INTRODUCTION
The Rational Interaction and Moral Sensitivity model (RIMS), is a model which is used to help in making decisions between issues that may morally contradict each other particularly if the right choice is not so obvious. The aforementioned strategy has increasingly been used as a model strategy particularly when taking into consideration the various interests, conflicting or not, of all parties when solving various moral dilemmas. In the following essay the author shall thus attempt to evaluate in terms of RIMS both the actions taken by the Marikana mine workers to strike as well as the succeeding option taken by the South African Police Service (SAPS) officers to fire upon the mineworkers on August 16. The author shall also …show more content…
Historically there has been a bad relationship between industrial action a violence in South Africa particularly because of contact between striking and non-striking employees, contact between law enforcement agents and striking workers and the general perception in industry the “unless strikes are accompanied by violence, nothing will be achieved” (Tenza, 2015). Furthermore, it is also the case that usually when there is industrial action in a lot of the cases the workers end up worse off because of the freezing of salaries, threat of violence as well as threat of dismissal from office if a strike was to occur. The combination of the aforementioned factors “led to mass self-representation on the part of the miners and a strike that resulted in death, extreme violence and intimidation” (Lin, 2012). However, a positive implication that occurred as a result of the strike was that the workers managed to negotiate a 22% pay raise on top of a once off payment of R2000 which subsequently led them to go back to work despite the unfortunate loss of lives that had to come about for them to be able to achieve this (De Waal, …show more content…
The mine workers and their wives proceeded to have further protests against Lonmin and police brutality. There were further worker boycotts in the week succeeding the massacre with only 27% of the 28000 employed workers boycotting work on the 20th of August. Furthermore, an enquiry was launched into the Marikana massacre and subsequently led to the suspending of Commisioner Mangwashi Victoria Phiyega following the recommendations of the Farlam Commission. Although there were negative implications, there were also positive implications in that following the massacre, there was a relative reduction in the criminal activities that had characterised in the protests in the build up to the August 16
The Rational Interaction and Moral Sensitivity model (RIMS), is a model which is used to help in making decisions between issues that may morally contradict each other particularly if the right choice is not so obvious. The aforementioned strategy has increasingly been used as a model strategy particularly when taking into consideration the various interests, conflicting or not, of all parties when solving various moral dilemmas. In the following essay the author shall thus attempt to evaluate in terms of RIMS both the actions taken by the Marikana mine workers to strike as well as the succeeding option taken by the South African Police Service (SAPS) officers to fire upon the mineworkers on August 16. The author shall also …show more content…
Historically there has been a bad relationship between industrial action a violence in South Africa particularly because of contact between striking and non-striking employees, contact between law enforcement agents and striking workers and the general perception in industry the “unless strikes are accompanied by violence, nothing will be achieved” (Tenza, 2015). Furthermore, it is also the case that usually when there is industrial action in a lot of the cases the workers end up worse off because of the freezing of salaries, threat of violence as well as threat of dismissal from office if a strike was to occur. The combination of the aforementioned factors “led to mass self-representation on the part of the miners and a strike that resulted in death, extreme violence and intimidation” (Lin, 2012). However, a positive implication that occurred as a result of the strike was that the workers managed to negotiate a 22% pay raise on top of a once off payment of R2000 which subsequently led them to go back to work despite the unfortunate loss of lives that had to come about for them to be able to achieve this (De Waal, …show more content…
The mine workers and their wives proceeded to have further protests against Lonmin and police brutality. There were further worker boycotts in the week succeeding the massacre with only 27% of the 28000 employed workers boycotting work on the 20th of August. Furthermore, an enquiry was launched into the Marikana massacre and subsequently led to the suspending of Commisioner Mangwashi Victoria Phiyega following the recommendations of the Farlam Commission. Although there were negative implications, there were also positive implications in that following the massacre, there was a relative reduction in the criminal activities that had characterised in the protests in the build up to the August 16