This as thousands of mineworkers are expected to converge at the Marikana Koppie in the province to commemorate the 16 August 2012 massacre.

The incident happened after wage negotiations between management and unions reached a deadlock while the workers were demanding a salary increase of R12 000 when the tragedy happened. The South African Government and the Ian Farlam Commission have been heavily criticised for having failed to hold those linked to the murder of miners to account. While speaking to the national public broadcaster, the SABC, Mogoeng said South Africans tend to look away from issues affecting the country.

He says he knows one of the police officers currently going to trial at the North West High Court to be one of the top and finest police officers the country has ever produced. He adds that he does not understand what drove him to have allegedly committed what he is accused of currently.

OFM News previously reported that former North West Deputy Police Commissioner, William Mpembe, and three other policemen recently appeared before the provincial High Court over the Marikana incident. The president of Amcu, Joseph Mathunjwa, recently told eNCA that mineworkers’ situation has not changed significantly.

"If the economic policies are still skewed as it is and still favour the business, [then] capital comes before the lives of workers," he said. "You are still seeing each mine killing 21 breadwinners without any consequences of these mine fatalities.” And even though we try to campaign for the amendments of the Mine Health and Safety Act, the government is very reluctant,” Mathunjwa told eNCA.

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