EFF leader Julius Malema will be in Marikana on Friday to lay criminal charges against Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa for his alleged role in the violence and deaths during the strike at Lonmin’s mine in 2012.

Despite the Farlam Commission of Inquiry clearing Ramaphosa of any responsibility for the deaths, Malema said a thorough investigation was needed.

“The reason we are opening a case against Ramaphosa is because it is only through criminal investigations that a proper and thorough investigation which is… detailed can be conducted,” he told reporters in Johannesburg on Thursday.

“The Commission is of the view that it cannot be said that Mr Ramaphosa was the ’cause of the massacre’,” retired judge Ian Farlam’s report states. News24