EFF STATEMENT ON THE BOYCOTT OF MARIKANA MASSACRE COMMEMORATION ACTIVITIES BY THE NUM AND ANC
15 August 2013
Economic Freedom Fighters note the media statements of the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) and Zuma African National Congress (ZANC) that they will boycott the official commemoration activities and prayer meeting organised by workers to remember the workers that were killed through a premeditated, cold blooded and barbaric massacre by the South African Government in Marikana on the 16th of August 2012.
EFF is not at all shocked that these organisations will not participate in the commemoration because they are guilty of the murder and massacre of those workers. It is the ZANC government, which NUM is a strong ally and extension of, that premeditated the massacre of innocent workers who were demanding better salaries.
It just could not make sense that Murderers would murder innocent workers, arrest those that are remaining, institute a fake Commission of Inquiry to distort and misinterpret what happened, deny workers fair legal representation, and then come back a year later to pretend like they are mourning the death of those they killed.