BusinessLive reports that President Cyril Ramaphosa is unhappy with the slow implementation of the Farlam commission of inquiry’s recommendations on Marikana.  

The presidency said on Wednesday that Ramaphosa wanted the Department of Justice and SA Police Service (SAPS) to accelerate the implementation of the recommendations.  The commission indicated in 2015 that a number of cases ranging from murder to attempted murder should be referred to the director of public prosecutions.  Although some suspects appeared before a North West court recently, a full investigation into the killings has still not been completed.  On 16 August 2012, police officers fired at striking Lonmin mineworkers.  Two police officers and two security guards were among those killed in the run-up to the massacre.  Ramaphosa’s dissatisfaction about the progress made is shared by civil society organisations and the Institute for Security Studies (ISS), which on Wednesday released a report detailing events at a scene on the day of the massacre.  The ISS report found that police behaved recklessly.

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