South Africa: Families Need to Attend Marikana Hearings - Lawyer

Rustenburg — The families of Lonmin mineworkers were entitled to attend a judicial commission's hearings into the shooting in which they were killed, a lawyer representing the families said on Monday.

The hearings, at the Rustenburg Civic Centre, should be halted until the families were able to attend, advocate Dumisa Ntsebeza, for the families of 21 of the dead miners, submitted to the commission led by retired judge Ian Farlam.

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