Sibanye agrees on wage deal for its gold operations, union says
On Tuesday, Sibanye reported a nearly 300% increase in third-quarter earnings from its gold operations.
A 13-minute video taken two days after South African police shot 34 protesters at Lonmin’s (LON:JSE) Marikana mine last year, shows a commander congratulating his officers at the police base in Rustenburg for what he qualifies as a precise plan execution, Sowetan newspaper reports.
“From the planning to the execution was 110 percent,” Brigadier Adriaan Calitz allegedly says in the footage. “I have to congratulate you. Exactly how we planned it and we briefed the commanders. Exactly we executed in that line.” Calitz gave the order to fire, according to The Daily Maverick.
Officers had originally said most of the miners died when they opened fire as the strikers charged them. They also indicated they had turned in all evidence to the commission.
But the video is part of new evidence recently discovered by the commission of inquiry that has been leading the investigation on the deadly incident. The brigadier’s comments may be considered a contradiction to the testimonies given by police after August 16, 2012.
So far not a single police officer has been arrested in connection with the event.
Watch some of the footage here:
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Godfrey
Planned for the shootings or planed for what to do if and when certain events happened or planned for certain outcomes. When are you lefties going to settle down and understand that the police cannot lose – if the result was police killed, rioters won the result is called anarchy – Google it. Play with fire, get burned, don’t cry