This fifth volume in the "New South African Review" series takes as its starting point the shock wave emanating from the events at Marikana on 16 August 2012 and how it has reverberated throughout politics and society. Some of the chapters in the volume refer directly to Marikana. In others, the influence of that fateful day is pervasive if not direct. Marikana has, for instance, made us look differently at the police and at how order is imposed on society. Monique Marks and David Bruce write that the massacre has come to hold a central place in the analysis of policing, and broader political events since 2012 . The chapters highlight a range of current concerns political, economic and social."