Police officers keep watch on the protesters outside Lonmin mine in Marikana near Rustenburg in the North West on August 16, 2012.Today marks the 12th anniversary of the Marikana massacre in which police gunned down 34 mineworkers at the Lonmin platinum mine near Rustenburg, North West.
At least 10 people including mineworkers, police officers and security guards were killed in the days preceding the tragedy.compensated the familiesSERI’s lawyer Nomzamo Zondo says, “It’s been the most disappointment that 12 years later there has been no prosecution for the murders that happened on 16 August and it’s even harder because it’s not necessarily that they haven’t happened, but they are in the pipeline. The NPA is still finalising the investigation.
The Sinethemba Women’s Organisation’s Thumeka Magwangqana says, “We are still living in shacks but they said they are building houses for the communities, but the houses that they built were the flats that the miners pay rent for, They are paying rent for those houses and not all the miners stay in those houses, others are still living in shacks with pit toilets, with no water, with no electricity.
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