Marikana Commission Of Inquiry

The senior counsel capitulated like Courage, the Cowardly Dog during a broadcast interview

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.

Nine police officers will appear in court on a number of charges including murder, attempted murder and defeating the ends of justice.

Ramaphosa addressed the massacre of 34 workers at the Lonmin Platinum mine in 2012 for the first time since being elected president in Parliament

Six years on, police describe their horror as ‘rogue’ officers mowed down Marikana strikers

‘I understand killing someone in self defence, but when I saw the man hiding behind the rocks being shot at close range, it took its toll’

‘The manuscript you sent us (bar, perhaps, mention of a R99-billion surplus) brought us, and by extension our readers, no joy’

It’s five years since miners were gunned down by the police yet no one has been found culpable, nor have the families been compensated.

The Marikana housing activist will be released on bail on Friday following six months in jail.

The inquiry found that the suspended police commissioner was not fit to hold office and that she lied to the Marikana Commission of Inquiry.

Here are just a few of the post-Marikana incidents that have significantly impacted on miners’ lives.

Time has washed over that terrible chapter in our history but the scars on the victims’ families is a reminder of the tragedy still being played out.

Evidence at the Claassen inquiry into the police commissioner’s fitness to hold office reveals that she secretly sought to undermine the Farlam probe.

Far from excoriating the report and defaming its author, Dumisa Ntsebeza ought to show some gratitude for its findings.

The biggest massacre by police of civilians in post-apartheid South Africa continues to haunt the collective conscience of a nation.