Dali Mpofu, representing wounded and arrested Marikana miners, says the protesters’ view was obscured by the Nyalas before cops shot at them.
South Africa has adopted a neo-liberal approach that is not going to get the country anywhere, says advocate Dali Mpofu.
Dali Mpofu’s new role as an Economic Freedom Fighter has provoked fresh scrutiny of his political role and his funding call for the Marikana miners.
Although the EFF is gaining the support of big names such as Dali Mpofu, its formation seems unlikely to foster wider collaboration among the left.
Advocate Dali Mpofu has resigned from the ANC and joined Julius Malema’s Economic Freedom Fighters, it was reported on Sunday.
Legal Aid SA has agreed to cover the legal costs of injured miners while deciding whether to appeal the court decision, which ordered them to do so.
Casac has urged Legal Aid SA not to appeal a high court order that the state should pay the legal costs of the survivors of the Marikana massacre.
A high court ruling ordering Legal Aid SA to pay the legal fees of Marikana massacre victims sets a precedent for future commissions.
Legal Aid SA will decide whether to comply or appeal the high court’s instruction that it has to fund the legal costs of the miners.
The Farlam commission has heard police officers ordered four mortuary vehicles to be at the hill at Marikana hours before the shootings last year.
Judgment has been handed down in favour of Advocate Dali Mpofu’s funding case for the Marikana mineworkers wounded and arrested in 2012.
A lawyer has told the Farlam commission that the surviving miners and the families of the deceased should have a fair chance to present their cases.
The proud tradition of anti-apartheid lawyers seems to have disappeared as miners battle to get legal representation at the Farlam commission.
The mineworkers’ legal representatives are begging for help
as the commission limps along.
If a donor is not found, Marikana mineworkers will have to raise money in order to fund their legal representation at the Farlam commission.
The Constitutional Court has dismissed an application for the state to provide financial aid to the miners arrested and injured at Marikana last year.
The legal team representing the Lonmin miners at the Farlam commission has still not received a copy of the judgment handed down a week ago.
The Farlam commission of inquiry will stand down until Thursday so that the injured miners’ representation can file at the ConCourt over funding.
Lawyers representing the Marikana mineworkers wounded and arrested last year have provisionally pulled out of the Farlam commission’s proceedings.
Mineworkers are heading to court to force the state to fund their representation at the Farlam inquiry.
Riah Phiyega has finally conceded she was aware of workers "asking for about R12 500 or whatever" at Lonmin ahead of the Marikana massacre.
After leaving in the wake of his stabbing in East London, advocate Dali Mpofu is set to return to the Farlam commission of inquiry this week.
Discussions about whether to move the Farlam commission from Rustenburg to Johannesburg or Pretoria will take place when advocate Dali Mpofu returns.
Lawyer Dali Mpofu was released from the East London hospital on Sunday after he was stabbed and robbed while walking along a beach.
Lawyer Dali Mpofu’s condition is improving, his wife said on Sunday, after he was stabbed during a robbery on an East London beach on Thursday.
The Farlam commission of inquiry is hoping to continue as planned next week, following an attack on miners’ advocate Dali Mpofu.
Lawyer and former SABC chief executive Dali Mpofu has been stabbed and robbed on an East London beach, reported SABC television news.
It has been an interesting week at the Farlam commission of inquiry as "underprepared" advocate Dali Mpofu faced NUM president Senzeni Zokwana.
There seems to be no end to the disputes at the SABC, especially over editorial independence as chief executive and head of news clash yet again.
Laywers have confirmed ANC Youth League president Julius Malema will meet the midnight deadline to appeal against his expulsion from the ruling party.
The ANC says Malema will hear his fate on Wednesday in spite of the youth leader’s complaint he was given too short notice to receive the verdict.
Johannesburg advocate Mafika Sihlali will finally have his day in court for allegedly defrauding the SABC.