EWN reports that the Marikana Support Campaign said that, while it welcomed Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa's latest comments about his role in the 2012 massacre, this was not enough.
Ramaphosa told academics at Rhodes University on Sunday that he tried to stop further deaths from happening during the strike and he also apologised for the language he used during that period. In 2012, Ramaphosa, who was a Lonmin shareholder at the time, wrote an e-mail to board members, calling for concomitant action after a number of people had been killed during the violent protest. The support campaign's Rehad Desai said: “I think the strong language used by Cyril Ramaphosa was not only in defence of his shareholding but also the defence of the National Union of Mineworkers." Ramaphosa said he had had no intentions of killing 34 mineworkers in Marikana.
- Read this report by Gia Nicolaides in full at EWN
- See too, Azapo rejects Ramaphosa's Marikana apology, at News24
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