Close to a decade after the Marikana massacre, President Cyril Ramaphosa has not visited the survivors as he promised to do, judges have acquitted police officers, children can’t get jobs and lawlessness reigns
Testimony about the events of 13 August 2012, when five people died at Marikana, has provided new details of the police’s incompetent handling of the striking mineworker situation.
The eight-year battle for justice played out its next round in the Mahikeng high court this week
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.
North West air wing chief Salmon Vermaak has broken ranks to give his ‘true’ version of the Marikana events.