New Evidence - South African Police Planned Marikana Massacre

[Jolly Red Giant]

New evidence has emerged in the last few days that clearly proves that the South African Police planned and carried out a massacre of srtriking mineworkers at Marikana in August 2012.

The Marikana Inquiry has discovered a new video of SAPS Brigadier Adriaan Calitz briefing police about the operation at Marikana two days after the massacre. In the course of the video Calitz states;


“From the planning to the execution was 110 percent. I have to congratulate you. Exactly how we planned it and we briefed the commanders. Exactly we executed in that line...Nothing, Nothing, Nothing was wrong” The Brigadier then becomes aware that his comments were being recorded by someone not from the police and asks for the recording to be taped over - he comments


That is the danger - that people will knowrealises what he has said and then states "there are no secrets here"

Brigadier Adriaan Calitz is the officer who ordered police to open fire on the striking mineworkers. The police had this video but hid it from the Marikana Inquiry.

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The Marikana Inquiry has discovered large amounts of new evidence on police hard drives that had been withheld from the Inquiry and the Inquiry has issued a statement accusing South African police of lying about the tragic incident that cost the lives of 34 striking miners shot and killed at platinum miner Lonmin's Marikana mine, in August last year. The Commission stated that it has discovered that "police falsified or withheld documents and gave false accounts of events".

http://www.mining.com/breaking-south-african-police-lied-over-shootings-in-marikana-mine-78312/

[Thirsty Crow]

The only possible question here was if the massacre was actually planned in advance or not.

What about the lessons which need to be drawn out from this tragic murder?

[Jolly Red Giant]

The only possible question here was if the massacre was actually planned in advance or not.
There is little doubt that the massacre was planned.

In new evidence -

On the morning of the massacre Colonel Madoda of the police national office contacted the Phokeng goverment mortuary for mortuary vans to be sent that day to “Marikana police station for any disaster that can occur during the Marikana/Lonmin strike”.

[Jolly Red Giant]

New evidence is now emerging of clear collusion between the mineowners at Lonmin, the police and the ANC government in the planning of the Marikana massacre.

On Tuesday, 14 August, two days before the massacre, North West Police Commissioner Zukiswa Mbombo discussed the crisis with Barnard Mokoena, Lonmin executive vice president of human relations and external affairs who was representing the board of Lonmin mines.

The meeting was recorded and transcribed by Lonmin, and it was discovered on a hard drive along with other evidence that police hid from the Marikana Inquiry.

The meeting, which included a number of members but is dominated by North West Provincial Commissioner Mbombo and Lonmin’s Mokoena, features a dialogue on political influence and the need to curtail political involvement of individuals and groups that have an alternative agenda to the interests of the mineowners (namely those who campaign for the nationalisation of the mines in South Africa).

During the meeting Mbombo refers to a conversation with the National Police Commissioner, Riah Phiyega, and also with the police minister Nathi Mthethwa, where both her superiors expressed the pressure they were under from Cyril Ramaphosa, then the major BEE shareholder in Lonmin. At that time, Ramaphosa was on the ANC NEC and served as the Chairman of ANC’s national disciplinary committee of appeals, and is now the ruling party’s deputy president.

Discussing the police plan’s readiness, Mbombo says there will be 480 policemen ready. Thus: “Tomorrow when we go there for the second time now, that we were there today and they did not surrender, then it is blood.” Mbombo makes further comments complaining about the laws that protect citizens from being arbitrarily shot by police.

Mokoena and Mbombo agreed that Lonmin must justify the police actions by instructing their workers to report for work in the morning or consider themselves fired. The police commissioner says that they must dupe the miners into believing the have won their battle, and then she asks Mokoena to delay the company helicopter dropping pamphlets to this effect until the next morning instead of during the night. This will ensure that the miners do not comply with the company order to return to work, and clears the way for the police plan to be implemented.

Throughout the discussion there is a sense of urgency and Mbombo assures Lonmin that if the protestors do not hand over their weapons and submit peacefully (in other words – abandon the strike and submit to the interests of the mine owners), a plan of force will be implemented, she stresses police are ready to implement their plan.

This new evidence confirms the drawing up of plans as outlined in the Ramaphosa emails that urged “action to address this situation” and the interconnection between the mining company, the police and the ANC/SACP government. It is now clear that the ANC/SACP intend to hang the killings on police commissioner Riah Phiyega in an attempt to deflect blame for the massacre from the government.