Zuma Appoints Lonmin Deaths Commission as Service Disrupted
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South African President Jacob Zuma appointed a judicial commission to probe the killing of 34 Lonmin Plc workers by police as government officials left a memorial service after it was disrupted by chanting unionists.
The commission of inquiry will be led by Ian Farlam, a retired Supreme Court of Appeal judge, Zuma told reporters today in Pretoria, the capital. The group will investigate the conduct of police, labor unions and Lonmin Plc before and during the Aug. 16 violence at the company’s Marikana mine, the deadliest police action since the end of apartheid. Prior to the shooting, 10 died in fighting during an illegal strike that began Aug. 10.