Questions asked over Marikana crowd control

Questions were asked on Tuesday about police planning before the shooting that left 34 striking miners dead in Marikana. Human Rights Commission lawyer Nokukhanya Jele cross-examined public order policing expert Brigadier Zephania Mkhwanazi, during hearings in Rustenburg by the Farlam Commission of Inquiry into the events at Marikana on August 16 last year. Jele put it to him that on that day there were about 170 public order police and more than 3000 striking Lonmin miners on the site. In Limpopo and in Gauteng there were a total of 1314 public order police who were not called in to help. Instead, other less specialised officers were called in to help, some from much further away.

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