The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has compared the handling of the Marikana Report by the Farlam Commission to how the apartheid government handled the Sharpville Massacre in 1960.
The EFF said the fact that the commission did not blame anyone for the events that saw 34 miners killed in cold blood is both ‘shocking’ and ‘sad’.
“How are the commission conclusions any different in treating the Marikana massacre to how apartheid treated the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, or the Soweto Massacre of 1976 or the Vaal Uprising Massacre of 1984?”
“No one went to prison for the brutal murder of black people in Sharpeville, Soweto and the Vaal and the families of the deceased never received any justice to this day,” said National Spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.
President Jacob Zuma released the details of the Marikana Report on Thursday in which the commission cleared all the executives including the then Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, the then Mining Minister Suzan Shabangu and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“The report has not put any blame on anyone; it has not called on anyone to apologise and it has not recommended reparations for any of the lives lost,” Ndlozi said.
“One is left to wonder if the Farlam Commission was actually investigating the same Marikana Massacre we all witnessed on 16 August 2012,” he added.
The EFF has thus far accused Ramaphosa, who was a Lonmin board member during the incident of allegedly being behind the police’s violent actions and have vowed to not rest until he and other ‘responsible’ people are behind bars.
Ndlozi said: “We can guarantee all South Africans that EFF will never rest until those responsible, particularly the political elite that presided over the police, including Cyril Ramaphosa, are prosecuted and sent to jail.”
'We will not rest until those responsible for Marikana killings are behind bars': EFF
The Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) has compared the handling of the Marikana Report by the Farlam Commission to how the apartheid government handled the Sharpville Massacre in 1960.
The EFF said the fact that the commission did not blame anyone for the events that saw 34 miners killed in cold blood is both ‘shocking’ and ‘sad’.
“How are the commission conclusions any different in treating the Marikana massacre to how apartheid treated the Sharpeville Massacre of 1960, or the Soweto Massacre of 1976 or the Vaal Uprising Massacre of 1984?”
“No one went to prison for the brutal murder of black people in Sharpeville, Soweto and the Vaal and the families of the deceased never received any justice to this day,” said National Spokesperson Mbuyiseni Ndlozi.
President Jacob Zuma released the details of the Marikana Report on Thursday in which the commission cleared all the executives including the then Police Minister Nathi Mthethwa, the then Mining Minister Suzan Shabangu and Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa.
“The report has not put any blame on anyone; it has not called on anyone to apologise and it has not recommended reparations for any of the lives lost,” Ndlozi said.
“One is left to wonder if the Farlam Commission was actually investigating the same Marikana Massacre we all witnessed on 16 August 2012,” he added.
The EFF has thus far accused Ramaphosa, who was a Lonmin board member during the incident of allegedly being behind the police’s violent actions and have vowed to not rest until he and other ‘responsible’ people are behind bars.
Ndlozi said: “We can guarantee all South Africans that EFF will never rest until those responsible, particularly the political elite that presided over the police, including Cyril Ramaphosa, are prosecuted and sent to jail.”
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