In a day dominated by sideshows, testimony continued at the Farlam commission with a succession of police officers stepping onto the witness stand.
The validity of video footage taken by police of the Marikana shooting is being questioned as the criminology expert’s evidence lacks detail.
The Farlam commission is in danger of collapsing after lawyers said they couldn’t proceed because of recent arrests and the withdrawal of funding.
Despite the negativity about it among miners, the National Union of Mineworkers still believes that it can win them back, writes Kwanele Sosibo.
The arrest of four would-be witnesses after attending the hearings is being seen by their comrades as a police attempt to intimidate witnesses
A crime scene technician has told the Farlam commission police may not have accounted for all the evidence collected after the August 16 shooting.
Emotional scenes unfolded at the Farlam commission, after clips showing the shootings that took place on August 16 at Lonmin.
The use of lethal force in the days ahead of the August 16 Marikana shootings was justified, the National Union of Mineworkers is expected to testify.
NUM officials and Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi were pelted with stones by some protesters at AngloGold Ashanti’s mine near Orkney.
After a week that saw mounting arrests to counter the spreading strikes, the Trotskyite Democratic Socialist Movement paused to plot a way forward.