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Jacob Applying His Mind to the Marikana Report

Over a month after getting the Marikana massacre inquiry report, President Jacob Zuma still isn’t saying if or when he will release it to the public. President Jacob Zuma says it would be inappropriate for him to release the Marikana report before he’s properly ‘applied his mind’ to its findings.

Zuma was handed the report by Judge Ian Farlam at the end of March and has since come under mounting pressure, including the threat of legal action to make it public.

During a violent and unprotected strike, officers opened fire on thousands of protesters. Spokesman Harold Maloka said yesterday that Zuma was still applying his mind. “The report could bring vindication or ignominy; resolution or anguish. Waiting for it, knowing that the president has it, but not knowing what it says, is almost unbearable. The families are in a state of nervous exhaustion,” wrote Socio-Economic Rights Institute (SERI) attorney Nomzamo Zondo in an affidavit to the North Gauteng High Court.

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