Riyaz Patel
Retired Judge Ian Farlam, who presided over the public inquiry into the Marikana massacre, believes that not much has changed and important recommendations in his report have not yet been implemented by government.
Despite the completion of its work in 2018, the police ministry has still not made the Commission’s findings public.
To date, only eight officers have been charged in connection with the mass shootings.
Speaking on 702 talk radio Friday, Farlam said assertions that politicians were exonerated were not true.
“I don’t think we can be blamed for their being no prosecution. As far as the politicians are concerned, it was said at the time that we’d exonerated everyone including the minister of police. That wasn’t true,” he underlined.
“We found that the evidence was very inconclusive, we couldn’t make a definite finding against the minister of police. On the other hand, we couldn’t make a definite
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