The police’s key witness refused to answer further questions after the miners’ advocate brought his mental and emotional state into question.
The Farlam commission has heard that police witness Mr X would be discarding muti, to follow the prescripts of Christianity.
An advocate representing the families of the deceased miners wanted to know if Mr X had been offered anything else in exchange for his testimony.
While accepting responsibility for police operations on August 16 2012, the former police minister pointed out he wasn’t personally to blame.
The fatal shooting of 34 people during the Marikana strike has no place in a modern South Africa, according to former police minister Nathi Mthethwa.
As former police minister Nathi Mthethwa is set to begin his testimony at the Marikana commission, we focus on some questions he’ll have to answer.
Pay cheques are in but many business owners will struggle to recover from the five-month platinum mine wage dispute.
The Marikana Commission has once again adjourned before hearing the end of Mr X’s testimony.
The North West premier says government will launch a programme of reconciliation, healing and renewal after a spate of tough crises in the province.
Stabbing, hacking, shooting and burning were "necessary" to make miners aware of the strike.
Family members of the Lonmin security guards who were killed by striking miners cried inconsolably as a witness described the details of the murders.
The Farlam commission has heard that a request to have a witness undergo mental observation had no merit and that there’s no factual basis for it.
The EFF are in Parliament to pursue a revolution, not rules, Julius Malema said on Friday, as his party staged a protest outside the legislature.
The police are hoping his statement will show that the Marikana miners were planning violence on the day 34 were killed in August 2012.
An SAPS unit commander ordered his men to sweep the koppie for guns instead of aiding the wounded.
Rehad Desai’s documentary ‘Miners Shot Down’ is compelling viewing even if there are moments at which one wants to turn away.
A team of officials from various departments will meet mining bosses and Amcu over strikes in the platinum belt.
The Mail & Guardian picked up three important accolades at the annual 2014 Standard Bank Sikuvile Journalism Awards.
As tensions run high in Marikana, Numsa says it might strike with Amcu – whose members are demanding a R12 500 salary from Lonmin, Amplats and Impala.
Rapula Moatshe is swept into a march of defiant mineworkers on their way back from the now sacred Marikana koppie.
The metal’s futures for June delivery have risen to $823 an ounce, the highest since August 2011 as a result of concerns about a supply shortage.
?As post-election euphoria dies down, Milton Nkosi wonders if South Africa’s glass is half-full or half-empty.
Miners burnt tyres, barricaded roads and set roadside stalls alight near Lonmin’s platinum mine to stop fellow strikers from returning to work.
Violence is flaring up on the platinum belt as miners are divided between those wanting to return to work and those threatening them if they do.
Despite dropping six percentage points, the ANC has won the provincial vote in the North West, the province in which the Marikana massacre took place.
Lonmin mineworker Thabang Booysen was determined to cast his ballot, even though he doesn’t know "that much about politics".
The mining strikes that have plagued the platinum belt in Rustenburg over the past two years are playing a pivotal role in how residents vote.
"Miners Shot Down" by local filmmaker Rehad Desai explores the events and killings leading up to the day 34 miners died at Marikana.
Section 27 of the Employment Equity Act has been largely ignored since 1998, even by Cosatu, write Dick Forslund and Jeff Rudin.
The SAPS has quizzed Lieutenant Colonel Salmon Vermaak about an episode where he instructed a junior police officer to fire at a protester in 2012.
During a cross-examination, North West Lieutenant Colonel Omphile Joseph Merafe told the Marikana commission he is very "heartbroken".
While blaming Amcu and Lonmin, Jacob Zuma told Afrikaans community leaders that fewer miners would’ve died at Marikana if the police had been firmer.