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To do this, I read specific testimonies given during the Marikana commission inquiry and focus on subsets of acts, symbols, languages, phrases and words – all of which point to strong ontological continuities between Marikana and what I believe to be Marikana's pre-history - the 1850's Cattle-Killing Movement, the 1921 Bulhoek Massacre, the 1960s Mpondo Revolts and the 2000s Xolobeni protests. In light of this, I suggest that the Marikana striker's political praxis are indicative of a unique epistemology of resistance - an epistemology that points to a longer and yet, more invisible lineage of black radicalism. With this history of black resistance in mind, I re-read the forms of collective action that unfolded in Marikana - as akin to a specific, but highly overlooked form of flight from oppression - as sociogenic marronage. 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