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Marikana cops could have done more

Amcu’s lawyer says the police should have intervened when the union's president told them Lonmin was not willing to engage with workers.

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Calitz ordered Marikana cops to engage

Brigadier Adriaan Calitz can be heard giving the order in a video clip taken from a helicopter during the police's dispersal operation at Marikana.

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Man held for Marikana sangoma’s murder

A man has been arrested for the murder of the sangoma believed to have masterminded rituals performed on Marikana mineworkers.

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Honourable Judge Ian Gordon Farlam during the public hearing of the Marikana Commission of Enquiry to investigate the Marikana tragedy. File picture: Dumisani Sibeko

Protesters’ path choice questioned
March 4 2013 at 18:47

The path chosen by a group of protesters shot by police at Marikana on August 16 did not make sense, a lawyer for the police told the Farlam commission.

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File image - Honourable Judge Ian Gordon Farlam during the public hearing of the Marikana Commission of Enquiry to investigate the Marikana tragedy at which 44 people were killed and scores injured. Picture: Dumisani Sibeko

Protester did not threaten cops: witness
March 4 2013 at 14:26

A protester was not threatening police when he said they would “finish each other” before the fatal shooting at Marikana, a survivor told the Farlam Commission.

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Ian Farlam is overseeing the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into events surrounding the shooting of 34 Lonmin mineworkers in Marikana.

Miner quizzed over Marikana weapons
March 1 2013 at 15:59

A mineworker who was among protesters at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Marikana on August 16 was questioned about the weapons wielded by the strikers.

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Ian Farlam is overseeing the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into events surrounding the shooting of 34 Lonmin mineworkers in Marikana.

Witness breaks down at Marikana hearing
February 28 2013 at 15:38

Graphic videos of last year's Marikana shooting caused a witness to break down at the Farlam Commission's public hearings.

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A policeman gestures at some of the 34 dead miners after they were shot outside the Marikana mine. File photo: Siphiwe Sibeko/ Reuters

‘Cops asked why I didn’t die’
February 27 2013 at 18:31

A survivor of the August 16 Lonmin shooting testified that after police officers had repeatedly shot him, they asked why he was not dying.

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File image - A police officer fires shots to disperse miners at Lonmin's Marikana.

‘We were shot while fleeing’: miner
February 27 2013 at 14:19

Protesting mineworkers were shot while trying to escape to a nearby informal settlement, a survivor told the Farlam Commission.

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Ian Farlam is overseeing the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into events surrounding the shooting of 34 Lonmin mineworkers in Marikana.

Marikana cops ‘shot my testicles’
February 26 2013 at 18:29

Police officers kicked and repeatedly shot an injured mineworker at Lonmin mine’s platinum operation in Rustenburg, the Farlam commission heard.

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Ian Farlam is overseeing the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into events surrounding the shooting of 34 Lonmin mineworkers in Marikana.

Lawyers want Marikana commission moved
February 26 2013 at 16:06

An application to move the venue of the ongoing public hearings of the Marikana commission from Rustenburg was brought before the Farlam commission.

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File photo: A picture taken from a police video shows striking miners lining up at a koppie near Marikana.

Miner denies vow of secrecy on koppie
February 22 2013 at 14:24

A miner wounded during conflict at Marikana last year has denied that he and his fellow protesters were sworn to secrecy about events there.

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Chairperson Ian Farlam is overseeing the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into events surrounding the shooting of 34 Lonmin mineworkers in Marikana. File photo: Sapa

Miner did not consider disarming
February 21 2013 at 19:05

A striking miner wounded at Marikana did not lay down his weapons because this did not occur to him at the time, the Farlam Commission of Inquiry heard.

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