"Jacob Zuma has singlehandedly found the Marikana workers guilty of murder and thus condoned a death sentence on them before even their side of the story was heard‚" the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF) said on Wednesday.
This came in reaction to the president’s reported reply 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".
EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi said "Zuma is saying it is correct that his police massacred workers in Marikana and we must accept a massacre as an act of crime prevention."
Zuma has committed to releasing the long-awaited report into the circumstances around the killings of 44 people in August 2012‚ compiled by retired Judge Ian Farlam‚ by the end of the month.
"Now instead of releasing the report he is handing out its conclusions in piecemeal fashion and subjecting the Marikana widows and their families to more trauma. There is no care or sensitivity in his pronouncements‚" Ndlozi said‚ adding that the EFF wants the Marikana Report released "with immediate effect".
"It is not his place to hand verdicts and sentence anyone."
Zuma handing out Marikana conclusions piecemeal: EFF
This came in reaction to the president’s reported reply 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".
EFF spokesperson Mbuyiseni Quintin Ndlozi said "Zuma is saying it is correct that his police massacred workers in Marikana and we must accept a massacre as an act of crime prevention."
Zuma has committed to releasing the long-awaited report into the circumstances around the killings of 44 people in August 2012‚ compiled by retired Judge Ian Farlam‚ by the end of the month.
"Now instead of releasing the report he is handing out its conclusions in piecemeal fashion and subjecting the Marikana widows and their families to more trauma. There is no care or sensitivity in his pronouncements‚" Ndlozi said‚ adding that the EFF wants the Marikana Report released "with immediate effect".
"It is not his place to hand verdicts and sentence anyone."
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