{"id":9418,"date":"2013-08-20T08:46:41","date_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9418"},"modified":"2013-08-20T08:46:41","modified_gmt":"2013-08-20T08:46:41","slug":"marikana-inquiry-continues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9418","title":{"rendered":"Marikana inquiry continues"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2363\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2363\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ian_farlam.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2363\" alt=\"Retired judge Ian Farlam\" src=\"http:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ian_farlam-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ian_farlam-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ian_farlam.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2363\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Retired judge Ian Farlam<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Farlam Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating the deaths of 44 people during strike-related unrest at Lonmin&#8217;s platinum mine in Marikana last year, is expected to continue on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This follows the Constitutional Court ruling regarding funding for the legal teams representing the miners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Thirty four people &#8212; almost all striking mineworkers &#8212; were killed on August 16 when police opened fire on them. Ten people, including two police officers, were killed in the preceding week.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">On June 21 Dali Mpofu, for the miners, told the commission that due to financial constraints, it could be his last day representing the miners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He brought an urgent court application in the High Court in Pretoria several weeks ago seeking funding, but this was dismissed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mpofu then took the State to the Constitutional Court, asking that it pay for his legal team.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The application was dismissed on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">North West deputy police commissioner General William Mpembe on Monday told the Commission how his colleague was killed by striking miners.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;I couldn&#8217;t count how many [attackers] there were&#8230; There were plus minus five of them who attacked Monene,&#8221; testified Mpembe.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;They had pangas and knobkerries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mpembe was being cross-examined by Takalani Masevhe, for the family of slain Warrant Officer Tsietsi Monene.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A second officer, Sello Lepaku, was also killed in the attack. &#8211; Sapa<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Farlam Commission of Inquiry, which is investigating the deaths of 44 people during strike-related unrest at Lonmin&#8217;s platinum mine in Marikana last year, is expected to continue on Tuesday. This follows the Constitutional Court ruling regarding funding for the legal teams representing the miners. Thirty four people &#8212; almost all striking mineworkers &#8212; were &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/praag.org\/?p=9418\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Marikana inquiry continues&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2363,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[5315,5316,5317,1513,1494,5314,794],"class_list":["post-9418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-south-africa","tag-commission","tag-dali-mpofu","tag-general-william-mpembe","tag-ian-farlam","tag-inquiry","tag-killings","tag-marikana"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/praag.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/ian_farlam.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9418"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9422,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9418\/revisions\/9422"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}