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Independent News reports that family members the ten people who were killed prior to the 16 August 2012 shootings at Marikana near Rustenburg painted a grisly picture on Sunday of how they died, lamenting that they had been forgotten.
"People were brutally killed, the security guards, the body parts were removed. They were torched inside the cars," Lizzy Monene, the younger sister of Warrant Officer Hendrik Tsietsi Monene told a National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) rally in Marikana. Monene and his colleague Warrant Officer Sello Ronnie Lepaauku were killed on 13 August 2012 at a railway line in Marikana by striking mineworkers while they were escorting them to the infamous Marikana koppie during the violent wildcat strike at Lonmin's platinum mining operations. Lonmin security guards Hassan Fundi and Frans Matlhomola Mabelane were burnt to death in their car near the Wonderkop Stadium. On 16 August 2012, 34 people, mostly mineworkers, were killed when police opened fire on the strikers. The two police officers and two Lonmin security guards were among the ten people killed in the preceding week.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Molaole Montsho at Independent News
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