PRESIDENT Cyril Ramaphosa has rejected claims that a court had ruled that mineworkers who were injured at the hands of police may pursue damages against him.
Ramaphosa was a non-executive director at Lonmin in 2012 when rock-drill operators embarked on a strike over wages that ended in 34 of them being gunned down by police, near its Marikana mine.
In the days leading up to the shootings, Ramaphosa had called for “concomitant action” to bring an end to the strike.
Surviving mineworkers took Ramaphosa and Sibanye Stillwater, which acquired Lonmin in 2019, to the High Court seeking compensation of about 1 billion rand ($61 million).
According to a statement from the presidency, the court agreed with Ramaphosa that allegations that he “owed a duty of care to the plaintiffs due to his role as director of Lonmin,” were incorrect.
“Disturbingly, is the ongoing politicisation of this tragedy leading to the
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