Solicitor-General calls for end to Marikana massacre compensation claims

CAPE TOWN - More than a decade since the Marikana massacre, Solicitor-General Fhedzisani Pandelani says a line has to eventually be drawn on civil claims against the state.

Taxpayers have already forked out over three hundred and thirty million rands to victims’ families and those who were arrested, detained or injured as a result of the wildcat strike at the Lonmin mine in 2012. "There’s this false narrative that government has not paid a cent and we are saying 'here are the figures that have been audited.'"

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