South Africa: Marikana Report - Key Findings and Recommendations

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President Jacob Zuma finally released the report of the Marikana Commission of Inquiry on Thursday. Political figures were exonerated but Police Commissioner Riah Phiyega's fitness for office was questioned. Those who committed the killings, both police and strikers, as well as Lonmin's failure to protect employees, should be investigated, the commission found. By GREG NICOLSON.

The report largely exonerates the key political figures accused of having a hand in the events leading to the Marikana massacre. Regarding Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa, who was a non-executive director at Lonmin, and pressured former police minister Nathi Mthethwa and former mineral resources minister Susan Shabangu to increase policing of the strike, the commission found that given the deaths that had already occurred, his intervention did not cause the increase in police on site, nor did he know the operation would take place 16 August.

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