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Nine years later, the government has not finalised damages claims, but has paid millions for Phiyega to contest the scathing findings against her
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Ex-police commissioner Riah Phiyega hoped to quash findings including colluding in a cover-up and misleading the public about what happened at the platinum mine in 2012.
New details about the infamous ‘Scene 2’ have emerged a day shy of the sixth anniversary of the Marikana massacre
Head commissioner Ian Farlam has granted the SAPS a postponement for Mr X’s testimony to be heard on June 19 rather than June 9.
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The Marikana Support Campaign says the Farlam commission’s new terms of reference could exonerate those responsible for the massacre.
President Jacob Zuma has granted the Farlam Commission of Inquiry, probing the 2012 shootings in Marikana, another three months to complete its work.
The Farlam commission has heard that the operations in the week leading up to the Marikana massacre were "not a success".
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Police witness Mr X will be allowed to testify in camera by video link but his name and photo must be disclosed to the evidence leaders and parties.
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Marikana commission chairperson Ian Farlam says his decision on allowing Mr X to testify in camera will be made public on Tuesday.
The operational commander at Marikana has admitted he became aware of the deadly shootings at Lonmin mine nearly an hour after the incident occured.
Most parties involved in the Farlam commission of inquiry support a call for its hearings to be moved from Rustenburg to Pretoria, it has heard.
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.
The eagerly anticipated Marikana inquiry has begun and we want your questions ahead of our live video with our reporters who are tracking the story.
A worker has told the Farlam commission that NUM members shot at protesters during the massacre at the Lonmin mine in Marikana in August.
Lawyers representing the victims of the shooting at Lonmin’s Marikana mine have failed to have the judicial inquiry into the incident postponed.
The commission has shown that the bodies of miners were not limited to a specific spot, as video footage suggested, but were spread over a vast area.
The South African Human Rights Commission says it is obliged to investigate alleged human rights violations, despite Parliament’s disapproval.
The commission of inquiry’s terms of reference are far-reaching, its deadlines tight and its worth in doubt.
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The Supreme Court of Appeal agreed on Thursday with a golf-estate homeowner that he is entitled to relief for badly aimed golf balls from the sixth hole at the Milnerton golf course. Nearly 900 golf balls had hit his home between 2003 and 2006. The court upheld an appeal by Alexander Simonis against a Cape High Court judgement.
A director of French arms company Thint always cooperated with investigators probing alleged corruption and fraud in South Africa’s multibillion-rand arms deal, the Supreme Court of Appeal heard on Wednesday. ”Mr [Pierre] Moynot has at all times offered the investigating team his kind and affable cooperation,” said Thint lawyer Peter Hodes.
The Supreme Court of Appeal reserved judgement on Tuesday in the dispute between Jacob Zuma and the National Prosecuting Authority over warrants used to seize documents from the former deputy president. Zuma’s lawyer, Kemp J Kemp, said the search warrants were ”overbroad”.