Seven Years On, The Focus Is Still On The 34 Dead Miners Laments ‘Unacknowledged’ Victims of #MarikanaMassacre

The widow of Lonmin security guard Hassan Fundi, who was brutally murdered by striking mine workers, approached me during the Marikana Commission of Inquiry in Rustenburg back in 2012.

The previous weekend, I had penned an article about Aisha Fundi, Veiled Widow’s Courage, in the City Press newspaper.

The piece detailed how she attended the hearings every day without fail, hoping to find out the truth about how and probably who had killed her husband, a devout Muslim, on 12 August 2012.

At the time, the Commission had set strict restrictions on journalists not to interview families of the deceased or witnesses.

It was extremely frustrating not to be able to speak to those whose loved ones had been killed and were now seeking the truth.

I wrote the