10:14 CR agrees that he was associated with Lonmin, NUM, police and government people at the time.
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10:12 The living conditions of workers was/ is appalling and inhuman, says CR.
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10:11 CR admits he should have taken a closer interest in the Marikana wage dispute and living conditions.
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10:09 We all have a role to play and somewhere along the line we may not have fulfilled those roles. – CR
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10:08
We need to establish the extent of your responsibility, Mpofu asks CR. CR’s lawyer Underhalter says these general statements are unhelpful.
Mpofu says he’s not here to help anyone, Farlam interjects and says he’s here to help the commission. Mpofu agrees.
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10:06
The responsibility has to be collective. As a nation we must dip our heads and accept that we failed the people of Marikana – CR says.
But we will now deal with your responsibility as you are testifying, says Mpofu. CR says OK.
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10:05
CR wrote: There are few innocents in this tragic space. Those who suffered most (wives and children), they have the least responsibility. The rest of us will find it harder to make such a claim. That includes Lonmin’s management, board and also unions NUM and Amcu, police. Through our action and inaction we share responsibility.
CR agrees that he still agrees with what he had written.
Mpofu says this will form the basis of his cross-examination.
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10:01 Mpofu reads excerpts of the article by CR in which he said violence had devastatingly become part of the unrest.
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10:00 Mpofu jumps a few paragraphs – much has been written about the circumstances that led to the deaths, CR wrote.
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09:59 Events at Marikana present probably the lowest moment in SA’s short democracy, CR had written. It shook SA to its core.
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09:59 Important to start cross-examination on a positive note, a compliment. On what CR said in an article in the Sunday Times.
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09:58 “So we get ride of the niceties…” – Mpofu. Time for the ‘nasties’ jokes Farlam. Mpofu chuckles.
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09:56 Mpofu starts with a smile and a few declarations. “You and I go back quite a long way,” he says as he warms up CR.
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09:55 Lonmin’s Adv Michael Van As has done a short examination of CR. Now time for Dali Mpofu.
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