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Marikana muti claims nonsense: Mpofu

Claims that protesting Lonmin mineworkers used muti, believing that it would make them invincible against police, were nonsensical, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard on Wednesday. “SAPS is looking for a reason why people were killed and [as] all the objective evidence shows the people were killed unlawfully, they have[…]

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Strikers were not killed lawfully: Lawyer

Striking miners shot dead by police on August 13 and 16, 2012, at Marikana were not killed lawfully, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard on Tuesday. Before beginning his final arguments to the commission in Pretoria, Dumisa Ntsebeza, for the families of miners killed in the 2012 unprotected strike, read[…]

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Ramaphosa acted unwisely: LRC

The Farlam Commission of Inquiry should report to President Jacob Zuma that his deputy Cyril Ramaphosa acted unwisely regarding Marikana, the commission heard on Thursday. “The question is whether Mr Ramaphosa should be held accountable for use of political pressure on the police,” Thembeka Ngcukaitobi, for the Legal Resources Centre[…]

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Farlam commission resumes

The Farlam Commission of Inquiry investigating the deaths of 44 people in Marikana resumes in Pretoria on Wednesday. The commission will hear oral arguments from the various legal representatives. The commissioners will then submit their final report to the Presidency by the end of March 2015. President Jacob Zuma appointed[…]

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Final lap for Marikana enquiry

The Farlam Commission of Inquiry has been granted its final extension, spokesman Phuti Setati said on Tuesday. “In terms of the latest terms of reference, the oral and final arguments by the parties represented at the commission will have to be done by November 14,” he told reporters in Marikana,[…]

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Phiyega back at Farlam Commission

National police commissioner Riah Phiyega is expected back at the Farlam Commission of Inquiry on Wednesday. Phiyega appeared at the commission last year where she was thoroughly grilled about the police’s role during the August 2012 strike at Lonmin’s Platinum Mine in Marikana. During her last appearance, Phiyega was accused[…]

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Marikana video fingers cops

A video shown at the Marikana Commission of Inquiry appears to disprove the police version of events ahead of the fatal shootings, The Times reported on Friday. The police claimed that the miners had attacked them and that they had used non-lethal force before resorting to live ammunition at “scene[…]

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Marikana hearing continues

The Farlam Commission of Inquiry probing the Marikana shooting continues public hearing in Pretoria on Monday. The commission is investigating the death of 44 people during a violent wage strike at Lonmin mines in Marikana in August 2012. Thirty-four mineworkers were killed when police opened fire on them on August,[…]

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Marikana remembered 2 years on

The second anniversary of the shooting at Lonmin’s Marikana mine, near Rustenburg in the North West was commemorated on Saturday at the koppie where miners were shot. Leaders from opposition parties, attending the rally, criticised government for not helping to change the lives of the mining community in Marikana. Economic[…]

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Cops, Marikana community work together

The relationship between the police and the community of Marikana in the North West has improved since the August 2012 unrest that left 44 people dead, police said on Thursday. Thirty-four people, mostly striking mineworkers, were shot dead in a clash with police on August 16 that year while 10[…]

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