Mine workers who were injured during the Marikana massacre are preparing to challenge the findings of the commission of inquiry into the events that was headed by retired judge Ian Farlam, says the workers’ legal representative, Dali Mpofu. The commission, set up by President Jacob Zuma after the killing of 44 mine workers and others during a violent strike at a Lonmin mine in 2012, has not revealed the truth about what transpired on that fateful day, according to Mpofu. He was among the speakers who spoke to mine workers and community members at a commemoration ceremony near the hill where 34 workers were shot dead by the police. Opposition party leaders said it was a disgrace that five years later, the government had still not apologised or financially compensated the families of the slain mine workers. Mpofu, also a top official of the EFF, said the government’s commitment to pay close to R1.2bn to Marikana claimants was a political tool used to appease South Africans in the last...
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