Government and the president said on Wednesday that all the deaths that occurred in Marikana in August 2012 should be "equally condemned as all are equally unacceptable".
This came in reaction to opposition parties condemning President Jacob Zuma’s comments about the Marikana massacre‚ after he was reported to have replied to a heckler at the Tshwane University of Technology on Tuesday that "those people in Marikana had killed people and the police were stopping them".
"The president has said it before that the deaths of the 10 persons who were killed before the tragic killing of 34 people in Marikana should also be condemned‚ including the killings that took place even after the deaths of the 34‚" said government spokesperson Phumla Williams.
Williams said the media had reported the remarks of the president at the university to have meant that he condoned the death of the 34.
"All the deaths should be equally condemned by all without being selective as all lives are important and all families equally lost their loved ones in the tragic and painful incidents that occurred at Marikana‚’’ said the president.
Zuma is expected to release the Marikana Report‚ complied by Judge Ian Farlam‚ which he has been applying his mind to for three months‚ by the end of June.
'All deaths must be condemned' Zuma
This came in reaction to opposition parties condemning President Jacob Zuma’s comments about the Marikana massacre‚ after he was reported to have replied to a heckler at the Tshwane University of Technology on Tuesday that "those people in Marikana had killed people and the police were stopping them".
"The president has said it before that the deaths of the 10 persons who were killed before the tragic killing of 34 people in Marikana should also be condemned‚ including the killings that took place even after the deaths of the 34‚" said government spokesperson Phumla Williams.
Williams said the media had reported the remarks of the president at the university to have meant that he condoned the death of the 34.
"All the deaths should be equally condemned by all without being selective as all lives are important and all families equally lost their loved ones in the tragic and painful incidents that occurred at Marikana‚’’ said the president.
Zuma is expected to release the Marikana Report‚ complied by Judge Ian Farlam‚ which he has been applying his mind to for three months‚ by the end of June.
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