Families request Marikana Report be released by Friday
27 May 2015
The Socio-Economic Rights Institute of South Africa (SERI) and the Legal Resources Centre (LRC) represent the families of the 37 mineworkers killed at Marikana on 13 and 16 August 2012.
Yesterday we wrote to President Jacob Zuma expressing concern that the report of the Marikana Commission has not yet been publically released, despite the clear public interest in it being promptly made available. We are aware of the announcement made by the President during his budget vote speech in Parliament yesterday that the report will be released before the end June.
This has not been communicated to our clients, and a letter sent on their behalf on 31 March has received no response. The families consider the more than seven weeks since the report was handed to the President reasonable time to consider it, and have requested that the President release the report by 1 June 2015.
Today we also wrote to Judge Ian Farlam on the families’ behalf requesting that, in the event that the President refuses to release the report by 1 June, he and his fellow Commissioners release the report. Regulation 15 of the Procedural Regulations establishing the Commission provides that: