S. Africa: Marikana Miners Were 'Uninformed' About Arrest

Dali Mpofu SC, for arrested and wounded miners, put it to the Farlam Commission of Inquiry that protesting Marikana miners were not told why they were being arrested in August 2012.

Police on the scene at Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana in the North West (file photo).

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