A highly-politicised three-year commemoration of the Marikana killings saw politicians jostling to promote their affiliations in Rustenburg on Sunday. “Marikana is another name of the EFF,” Economic Freedom Fighters leader Julius Malema told the approximately 20 000 people gathered at the dusty site where 34 striking mineworkers were shot dead[…]
President Jacob Zuma on Sunday called on South Africans to commemorate the shooting of 44 people in Marikana three years ago with unity and dignity. “Nobody supports the horrendous loss of life that occurred in Marikana,” he said in a statement. “We remember all who lost their lives including those[…]
The miners arrested and injured at Marikana launched a civil claim against government totalling more than R1bn on Friday, their lawyer said. “The team led by Advocate Dali Mpofu, SC, launched the civil suit on behalf of 275 miners,” the miners’ lawyer Andries Nkome told News24. “The suit launched is[…]
Instead of taking a decisive stance on the Marikana shootings in the interests of justice, the Farlam Commission passed the buck, DA leader Mmusi Maimane said on Thursday. Speaking during Parliament’s debate on the Farlam Commision of Inquiry’s report into the August 2012 shootings at Marikana, Maimane said the victims’[…]
The Association of Mineworkers and Construction Union (Amcu) is expected to launch a fundraising campaign for the families of mineworkers killed at Marikana. A news conference will be held on Thursday. The labour union’s president is also expected to be present and the union will give an update on civil claims lodged[…]
National Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega on Thursday dodged questions about the Marikana report released by President Jacob Zuma last month. Phiyega was attending her first public engagement since Zuma announced that the commission of inquiry, which probed the deaths of 44 people during a 2012 strike at Lonmin’s Platinum Mine in[…]
The Marikana inquiry into the killing of 34 mineworkers in 2012 cost a total of R153 million, according to the Sunday Times. Justice department spokesperson Mthunzi Mhaga told the newspaper that the inquiry cost R31.9 million in 2012 when it sat from October to December. During 2013 and 2014 it[…]
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,[…]
The Economic Freedom Fighters does not intend on letting Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa off the hook when it comes to Marikana, insisting that one way or another it will have charges against him instituted. “The reason we are opening a case against Ramaphosa is because it is only through criminal[…]
The EFF and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS) will hold separate discussions on Thursday about retired Judge Ian Farlam’s report on the violence and deaths at Marikana. ISS political analyst Gareth Newham has said there were 2 glaring gaps in the report of the Farlam Commission of Inquiry, one[…]
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