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BL Premium reports that Sibanye-Stillwater CEO Neal Froneman has come out in defence of President Cyril Ramaphosa, who has been threatened with legal action from mineworkers over his role in the Marikana massacre.
As Sibanye hosted a memorial lecture on Tuesday to mark the ninth anniversary of the tragedy that took the lives of 44 people, Froneman said it would be “completely improper to persecute our president over the Lonmin disaster”. Froneman’s comments followed the announcement by the legal representative of the injured and arrested mineworkers, advocate Dali Mpofu, on Monday that mineworkers had set aside a combined R1m from their compensation money for a lawsuit. Mpofu said they have approached the North West High Court to compel Ramaphosa and Sibanye to make an undertaking to apologise for the incident and to ensure that the incident was not repeated. At the time of the massacre in August 2012, then deputy president Ramaphosa was a non-executive director of Lonmin, with his former company, Shanduka, a minority shareholder. He exited Shanduka in November 2014 and Lonmin was sold to Sibanye in 2019. In 2017, Ramaphosa apologised for his role in the massacre saying the language he used in e-mails to the Lonmin directors, in which he called for concomitant action against those involved in the strike, was “unfortunate” and “not appropriate”.
- Read the full original of the report in the above regard by Thando Maeko at BusinessLive (paywall access only)
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