{"id":15128,"date":"2012-10-01T17:23:36","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:23:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/10\/south-africas-marikana-massacre-inquiry-opens\/"},"modified":"2012-10-01T17:23:36","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:23:36","slug":"south-africas-marikana-massacre-inquiry-opens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/south-africas-marikana-massacre-inquiry-opens\/","title":{"rendered":"South Africa&#8217;s &quot;Marikana massacre&quot; inquiry opens"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Inquiry into police killings and labour unrest in mines<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* Police, govt in line for criticism<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>* ANC leadership race also comes into the open<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>By Mike Hutchings<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>MARIKANA, South Africa, Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; A retired judge<br \/>\ntoured the spot where police killed 34 striking platinum miners<br \/>\nin August as he opened a judicial inquiry on Monday into South<br \/>\nAfrica&#8217;s bloodiest security incident since the end of apartheid.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Ian Farlam has four months to uncover the events surrounding<br \/>\nthe Aug. 16 &#8220;Marikana massacre&#8221;, which sparked intense criticism<br \/>\nnot only of the police but also of mining bosses, unions, the<br \/>\nruling African National Congress (ANC) and President Jacob Zuma.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our country weeps because of the tragic loss, and this<br \/>\ncommission will work expeditiously to ensure the truth is<br \/>\nrevealed,&#8221; Farlam told a hearing in the platinum belt city of<br \/>\nRustenburg, 120 km (75 miles) northwest of Johannesburg, the<br \/>\ntown closest to the Lonmin-owned Marikana mine.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The names of the 34 dead, most of them from the poor Eastern<br \/>\nCape province, were read out at the start of the inquiry before<br \/>\nlawyers for the police, victims&#8217; families and 270 miners<br \/>\narrested after the shootings locked horns over procedure.<\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The commission and its findings could be politically<br \/>\ndamaging to Zuma and the ANC, especially if security forces are<br \/>\nfound to have been as trigger-happy and ruthless as their<br \/>\napartheid predecessors.<br \/>\n\u00a0 <span class=\"label\"><strong>Continued&#8230;<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>* Inquiry into police killings and labour unrest in mines * Police, govt in line for criticism * ANC leadership race also comes into the open By Mike Hutchings MARIKANA, South Africa, Oct 1 (Reuters) &#8211; A retired judge toured the spot where police killed 34 striking platinum miners in August as he opened a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[830,2370,183],"class_list":{"0":"post-15128","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-south-africa","7":"tag-news","8":"tag-reuters","9":"tag-south-africa-2","10":"entry"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15128\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.myza.co.za\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}