News24 reports that Cosatu is engaging with the Office of the President for President Cyril Ramaphosa to visit Marikana in October.  

The trade union federation’s deputy general-secretary Solly Phetoe indicated on Thursday that a workers rally with all its affiliated unions was planned for October.  While on the campaign trail in the Eastern Cape in 2017, Ramaphosa indicated his desire to visit the mining town, where 34 people died in 2012.  Speaking to Rhodes University students, the president apologised for the manner in which the Marikana massacre unfolded, also saying he was sorry for the type of language he had used at the time.  Ramaphosa told students he had intervened in the Lonmin mine strike in Marikana to prevent further deaths.  On the eve of the Marikana massacre, Ramaphosa allegedly wrote in an email interchange between Lonmin management and government officials that events around the strike "are plainly dastardly criminal acts and must be characterised as such".  On Thursday, Cosatu president Zingiswa Losi denied that Ramaphosa had been directly involved with the killings, pointing out that the Farlam commission of inquiry into the killings had exonerated him.

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